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

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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?