urban muckrakers
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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.
• 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
First…Gangs
• First street gangs founded.
• Bandit’s Roost, 1887
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
Tenements
HomelessnessIf you couldn’t afford the tenement the street was your option…
including kids
Trash Trash
What do you remember about this from the video?
Problems facing Cities, 1880-1920
What do you think will be some of the issues facingAmerican cities as they grow this fast?