industrialization and urbanization
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INDUSTRIALIZATION AND
URBANIZATION
Early 20th century AmericaThe Gilded Age
Learning Goal
Understand living and working conditions in urban industrialized America
Urban housing Child labor Workers rights
Tenement Life
Overcrowded Filthy Lack of Heat in Winter No Running Water No Flush Toilets Lack of or Contaminated Ventilation
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Working Conditions
sweatshop
Child Labor
Child Labor
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Ladders did not reach the workers
Flames so hot they melted the iron firescape
Bodies of girls who jumped to their death trying to escape the flames
Rows of Coffins
Quick Write
Do we need government regulation of industry?
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