Powerpoint for my 8th grade students to introduce economic reform in the progressive era

6. Lewis Hine Child Labor in America

14. Jacob Riis “How the Other Half Lives”

15. Tenement House Yard

16. Room in a Tenement, 1910

17. Twelve year old boy (who had sworn he was sixteen) pulling threads

18. Knee-pants at forty-five cents a dozen - a Ludlow Street sweat shop

19. Necktie workshop in a Division Street tenement, 1889

20. In a seven-cent lodging-house

21. Lodgers in a crowded tenement - five cents a spot

22. Street Cleaning, Fourth Street

23. Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters

24. Street Arabs in sleeping quarters [areaway, Mulberry Street]

25. Street Arabs in sleeping quarters [a church corner, Mulberry Street

26. Street Arabs in night quarters

31. The Toll on the Environment

33. Theodore Roosevelt As president from 1901 to 1909, Roosevelt drastically changed American perception of presidents . he simply wanted government to regulate industry to make sure it served a larger public and national interest.

34. This idea came to be called the “New Nationalism.” While “TR” acted to break up certain trusts, he only did this when he thought their power would harm the country.

36. Like other Progressives, Roosevelt worried about the harm done by unchecked private companies – such as the mining operation shown here. In a 1907 speech he said, “The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.” Roosevelt was not opposed to industrial development. His fear was not that we were using our natural resources, but that we were wasting them, to the detriment of the nation’s power and prestige.

38. Workers in a Chicago meat packing plant in 1905. When the revelations of unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry in Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906) shocked Americans into demanding regulation of the food industry, Roosevelt played a key role in the fashioning of a Pure Food and Drug Act, and a Meat Inspection Act, both in 1906. Reformers had been demanding federal regulation of patent medicines and processed meats for some time. Theodore Roosevelt worked with the largest meat packers to design compromise legislation under which government inspectors were allowed into the packing houses, but meat packers could appeal their decisions in court.

40. Food Contamination