5.3.2 Improving City Life

Book written by Jacob Riis

• How the Other Half Lives

• The Jungle

• History of Standard Oil

• McClure's Magazine

Was wealthy and was able to support many progressive causes such as working conditions and child labor

• Florence Kelley

• Alice Paul

• Ida B. Well

• Upton Sinclair

How might the 1893 labor law have changed the lives of children?

• children would become healthier because they had time to eat and rest

• more time for education and play

• earn higher wages

• legally exempted from school to help support their family

These were places in big cities that helped immigrants adjust to their new lives in America.

• political machines

• tenements

• ghettos

• settlement houses

How did settlement houses like Hull House help city dwellers?

• offered day care for children

• provided classes in sewing

• provided class in cooking

• provided classes in English

What was Jane Addams' establishment called?

• The Escape.
• Convalescent Home.
• Hull House.
• The Mansion.

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Where was Jane Adams born?

• Cedarville, IL - just north of Freeport

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process of adapting to the culture of an adopted country

• assimilation

• naturalization

• minority

• descendants

Why did reformers take on the task of helping the urban poor?

• improve living conditions

• increase wages

• create more jobs

• build more skyscrapers

Who was Lawrence Veiller

• took photographs of tenements and published them in a book

• tried to change laws in New York

• worked with a charity organization

• sponsored an exhibit showing conditions in tenements