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America at the time

America during this time period from ____to____ was undergoing rapid
industrialization.
This led to massive immigration from Europe and a large number of migration from
the south with African American being a major group to move.
This influx of people led to __________ in the cities which led to overcrowding and
poor living conditions.
Home life was difficult and newly arrived immigrants sometimes had to live in
cramped spaces where whole families would be crowded in small apartments.
______ was a photographer who took notice of this and began to photograph the
difficulties suffered by immigrants and the poor. This led to public awareness of the
problem.
Examine the photographs. Describe what you are seeing by writing down your
interpretation of each photograph followed by a supporting piece of evidence.
Example 1. The picture in the top right corner shows how male workers lived. My
evidence for this is the fact that all the people in the photograph look like working
age men.
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While at work people also suffered greatly as they were paid low wages while
having to work long hours. They was no security in their jobs as if they were injured
the company could easily find another worker to __________ them.

Child labor was still occurring at this time. In fact many companies favored hiring
children as they could be paid less and their small frames allowed them to crawl
into small quarters. This is one reason why they were hired in cloth factories.
Examine the photographs. Describe what you are seeing by writing down your
interpretation of each photograph followed by a supporting piece of evidence.
Example: In the top right photograph I see a small child who works in this textile
mill, my evidence are the machine which she is standing between and what appears
to be cotton on the floor.
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Remain quiet and pay attention during the video

Respond the questions on the slide be ready to share.
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Muckrakers were people who focused on bringing attention to these issues and
helped show America what was happening in their cities and their factories.
The effect of their work was a push for _______. In the case of Sinclairs The Jungle
this was reform to the way we inspect our food for safety.
Sinclairs The Jungle
Instructions: Students are pay attention to the teacher as he shows the way in
which he wants the text provided below to be annotated. Students will read the

remaining text and annotate it with a focus on words they dont understand and
parts they find particularly interesting. They will afterwards write a short 25 word
summary and discuss this summary with their group member paying attention to
the differences or similarities between their summaries.

Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle
rooms, and he might have a sore that would put him out of the world;
all the joints in his fingers might be eaten by the acid, one by one. Of
the butchers and floorsmen, the beef-boners and trimmers, and all
those who used knives, you could scarcely find a person who had the
use of his thumb; time and time again the base of it had been slashed,
till it was a mere lump of flesh against which the man pressed the knife
to hold it. The hands of these men would be criss- crossed with cuts,
until you could no longer pretend to count them or to trace them. They
would have no nails, they had worn them off pulling hides; their
knuckles were swollen so that their fingers spread out like a fan. There
were men who worked in the cooking rooms, in the midst of steam and
sickening odors, by artificial light; in these rooms the germs of
tuberculosis might live for two years, but the supply was renewed
every hour. There were the beef-luggers, who carried two-hundredpound quarters into the refrigerator-cars; a fearful kind of work, that
began at four o'clock in the morning, and that wore out the most
powerful men in a few years. There were those who worked in the
chilling rooms, and whose special disease was rheumatism; the time
limit that a man could work in the chilling rooms was said to be five
years. There were the wool-pluckers, whose hands went to pieces even
sooner than the hands of the pickle men; for the pelts of the sheep had
to be painted with acid to loosen the wool, and then the pluckers had
to pull out this wool with their bare hands, till the acid had eaten their
fingers off.

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Work like Sinclairs and Hines created public awareness of the issues in society they
helped mobilize people into action.
Legislation would be passed that addressed these and many other issues. Some like
the _____________ _____________________protected our food and others like the
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____________________ made sure our medicine was safe to take.