Newsboy Strike of 1899

Newsboy Strike of 1899

Directions

If you have any questions, type them in the questions box as it appears. I will answer any questions about the lesson. If you have to go to the bathroom JUST GO! If you are having technology problems, I will fix it AFTER the lesson.

You need a pencil and piece of paper to take notes.

Vocabulary

Newsies - children who sell newspapers on street corners.

papes - Slang for "newspaper"

hawking - slang for "selling something"

orphan - a child whose parents are dead or gone.

Scabs - a worker, often temporary, who crosses a strikers' picket line, going to work in place of the strikers.

Vocabulary

sweatshop - a shop or factory in which employees work for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions.

Yellow Journalism - a type of journalism that relies on exaggeration

Important Information

• The Newspaper strike of 1900 was a powerful movement from young children against the major newspaper bosses, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst

• The newsboys, also called "newsies", were the main distributors of newspapers to the general public in the United States from the mid-19th through early 20th century.

• The newsies were a group of young boys, generally living in orphanages, and who sold newspapers for pennies everyday

• The leaders, Dave Simons and Louis "Kid Blink" Ballatt gathered newsies together to strike the low pay of newsies.

• The newsies officially went on strike July 21, 1899 by protesting the newspaper companies.

• The newsies fought for several days and eventually settled with Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst to get reimbursed for the unsold newspapers.

• Newsies woke up at 5:00 Am to go buy their papers at Printing House Square.

• 100 hundred papers cost 50 cents.

• The Journal and the World owned by Pulitzer and Hearst cause the newsboys strike of 1899.

Open Ended

Questions I have about the lesson are...

Open Ended

Questions I have about the lesson are...

Multiple Choice

Who were the two gentlemen the newsies fought against.

• Pulitzer and Hearst

• Simmons and Ballatt

Fill in the Blanks

What day did the Newsboys Strike begin?

Multiple Choice

What time did the newsies head to Printing House Square

• 5:00 AM

• 5:00 PM

Fill in the Blanks

How much money do you need in your pocket when you pick up the papers?

Open Ended

The Fair Labor Standards Act put an end to almost all child labor in 1938. Do you think kids should be able to work today? At what age? What kinds of jobs do you think are appropriate for kids today?