Urban muckrakers

8
problems that you think Boston faces today. When you finish rate them in order. 1 is the most serious.

Transcript of Urban muckrakers

Page 1: Urban muckrakers

Do Now: Make a list of problems that you think Boston faces today. When you finish rate them in order.

1 is the most serious.

Page 2: Urban muckrakers

• Muckrakers: Journalists and citizens who used technology to expose poverty and terrible conditions.

• Progressives: Politicians who tried to reform American society from 1880-1920.

Theodore Roosevelt

George Waring

Page 3: Urban muckrakers

First…Gangs

• First street gangs founded.

• Bandit’s Roost, 1887

Page 4: Urban muckrakers

Tenements

• Tenements were large buildings for the poor.

• “5 cents a spot” to sleep on the floor for a night

• No bathrooms, windows, air vents

Page 5: Urban muckrakers

Tenements

Page 6: Urban muckrakers

HomelessnessIf you couldn’t afford the tenement the street was your option…

including kids

Page 7: Urban muckrakers

Trash Trash

What do you remember about this from the video?

Page 8: Urban muckrakers

Problems facing Cities, 1880-1920

What do you think will be some of the issues facingAmerican cities as they grow this fast?