New York State Tenement House Act

of 10 and 15 were employed in the United falling just short of 20 percent of the workforce. Thirty years later in the 1900 census, two million children were working in mills, mines, fields, factories, stores, and on city streets across the United States. But with increasing numbers of children being put into the workforce, the conditions in which they worked rapidly declined. Such rapidly declining conditions were due to “compulsory education laws, massive inflows of inexpensive immigrant labor

amendment was passed to ban the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States. Carry Nation worked hard to enforce prohibition, but struggled greatly. There were a lot of accidents and other dangerous problems that were happening because people were drunk. D Although there were many problems resulting from alcohol, the prohibition act was never enforced because people were still consuming alcohol. Carry Nation was very against alcohol. She hated saloons

ongoing in the United States as more laws and restrictions are implemented on reproductive care. In 2014 there was a heated debate on whether there should be a mandated coverage for birth control on health insurance plans. According to a survey by the University of Michigan Health System, 69% of adults in the United States support this requirement in health insurance plans and the people who oppose this requirement is less than 10%. There have been other laws made by states recently that are affecting

In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s many immigrants came to the United States for a better way of life. I chose this particular question because I am first generation American. My parents were born in Sicily; my great grandparents came to the United States in the early 1900’s. My grandmother was born in the United States 1904, although she was born in America her parents did not choose to remain in the United States. Longing for their home land my great grandparents moved the family back to

making posters with his photographs on them, to persuade people that child labor needed to come to an end. He travelled over 50,000 miles, visiting New York tenements, Colorado farms, Connecticut cranberry fields, Pennsylvania mines, canneries, and other factories. His efforts helped put an end to child labor, and also helped shape the United States into a better country. Hine had a very long career pursuing photographing child laborers until 1918, when he retired from the

The Gilded Age * During the Gilded Age, American businesses were transformed: * Massive corporations replaced small, family businesses * New technology, transportation, marketing, labor relations, & efficient mass-production * By 1900, the U.S. was the most industrialized country in the world * 19th-century inventors led to an “Age of Invention”: * Cyrus Field’s telegraph cable * Business typewriters, cash registers, adding machines * High-speed textile

wars that the United States has ever participated in. The reason for this is that the country was not at war with an enemy from another country but within itself. With the many years of conflict between the northern union states and the southern confederacy states and with the Union’s victory over the confederate south, it has been known as one of the most infamous wars of United States History. This war also proclaimed the crucial significance of six presidents from states that represented both

industrialization was growing rapidly, and immigration to our country increased dramatically. Mark Twain and Charles Warner named this time of industrial prosperity the Gilded Age because the wealth of the fortunate masked the problems that the society faced. New inventions and corporations led to industrialization and immigration growing in our nation. Industrialization led to the creating of mass culture, which allowed people to have more leisure time. However, all of the great wealth that industrialization

Spanish-American War” (“Pure Food and Drug Act” 1). As the beef and pork industries became questionable, Upton Sinclair investigated the meat-packers and published his works in a socialist newspaper called The Jungle (Kennedy 667). In his work, Upton revealed the “...filth that contaminated U.S meat and [resulted in] a public uproar” (“Pure Food and Drug Act” 1). In a similar instance, Samuel Hopkins Adams attacked the drug industry as fraud (“Pure Food and Drug Act” 1). Many of the pharmaceutical companies

Many of the challenges immigrants faced in Gilded-Age America stemmed from the pressure to accommodate to American standards and the prejudice they faced when unable or unwilling to do so. For most, dealing with the struggle of assimilating to a new culture outweighed returning home to a bleak, unprosperous country. The jeers, hatred and protests were worth dealing with in a place with seemingly unlimited opportunities, wealth, safety and a better life. However, as much as newcomers tried to fit