Gilded Age (1850-1910) Progressivism (1901-1921)

THESIS- There were social and economical issues which lead to

political changes.

“A LOT OF JEWS!” Milk and Honey

• 22,800,000• Ellis Island• Better opportunities• Asian Labor

• Asians on west coast• European immigrants

on the East coast

URBAN CRIME AND GHETTO

• Slums and Ghettos • Chinese Exclusion

Act• 1844 • Nativism

MONOPOLIES

• Standard Oil/ U.S. Steel

“Raking Up Some Muck”

• Lewis Hine- bring attention to laborers through photojournalism

• Ida Tarbell- uncovered trusts

• Upton Sinclair- Food and Drug Act

“Who Ya Gonna Call?....

• Theodore Roosevelt • Sherman Antitrust Act • NSC• Food and Drug Act • Coal Strike

TRUST BUSTERS”

• Asia Bryant• Ali Magistro• Hayley Anderson