Hello! My name is Erica from Sal’s period 9 20th Century class. Social problems were deffinately a huge issue during the early 1900’s. At this time, jobs paid so poorly that people started finding other ways to increase their income. Almost all of these ways were illegal. All of these problems were widespread and increased as the years came along. Some of the illegal actions included; gambling, robbery, prostitiution, and selling illegal drugs. As the cities population increased, the violence also increased. Gang fights and murder also had a great impact on people’s lives. Not only were these problems, but many other things as well. While all of these things were going on, there wasn’t even enough police officers of firefighters.
Sinclair and Rauschenbusch were two of the people who tried to solve these social problems. They tried to solve these issues by focusing on problems that they saw firsthand or had a personal oppinion on. Their ideas to solve the issues was to confront and emphasize the problems. These problems did not work. One reason for this is because there is still many of these issues today. There may not be as many but these issues are not completly fixed.