Hello. This is Elena H. In the early 1900s the safety of the common worker were not taken into account by the owners and managers.
There were problems like how a factory for producing cloths burned down with the workers inside: the women that worked there had been sneaking out so the managers locked them in. The working children would breath in arsenic fumes from paint or get nicotine poisoning from tobacco or spine curvatures from bending over their designated sewing machines. The houses would be crowded with an average of 1.9 people per room in the poorer sections of the cities. Landlords divided smallapartment into more smaller apartments. More and more apartments started not getting any fresh air as new buildings rose around them.
There were some who tried to help solve these issues like Florence Kelley who tried to get child labor banned to get them out of the factories that would kill them. Jane Addams opened a settlement house for the poor to learn and a day care for their children, so they wouldn’t be left home alone, called the Hull House. Architects tried making air shafts between buildings to allow air, but people threw their trash in the air shafts.

Hello, my name is Tori g. I am from Sal’s period 6 class. The 1900’s contained lots of struggles and hardships. Child labor was a major problem during this time. Child Labor put kids in bad situations, made them work in harsh conditions, and ruined there childhood.

Child labor used all kinds of children. Women didn’t have much of a say but they did not agree with it. The children were forced to work in factories and all kinds of places. There was one leader who was fully against this. Florence Kelley, a women who fought the battle of child labor. She described that the children were put in harm and danger, suffering short-term and long-term affects. Children suffered nicotine poisoning from working in the tobacco industry. They also suffered long-term back and vertebre problems. This also never let them be kids. They had to grow up and work and that is depressing.

Child labor was a terrible idea. It took away a Childs innocence. Kelley continued her battle. She set up boycotts and protests. Finally in 1938 a law was passed for fair labor standords. This saved many children from hardwork and bad health.

Hi I’m Daniel K and I’m in Mr. Sal’s 6th period history class. Back in the early 1900’s they didn’t care for injured workers as much as they do today. In 1914 about 700,000 people were injured and 35,000 died on the job. Injured workers back then weren’t compensated if they were injured at their work place. Basically if a miner was in a mine and the mine collapsed and he got too injured to work he would not be compensated for it, or if a railroad worker got his leg smashed and broken by a railroad rail being dropped on it he wouldn’t get compensated for it either. They would most likely just get fired, but after prostests by unions and articles by muckrakers the state of Maryland in 1902 passed a law to compensate injured workers. Then by 1916 two thrids of states required companies to compensate workers injured on the job.

Hello my name is Jay K, I chose to research the topic of Urban Growth in the late late 1800’s early, 1900’s and how it effected are country up until this date. Urban growth is constant rate of population increase in a major city. Back in the early 1900’s people where migrating from tons of different countries and usually ended up in major cities in the United States. In the year 1860 only 20 percent of people lived in urban or majors cities, by 1900 the percentaged doubled. Urbanization would be the most fitted word for my topic which means the growth of cities population. There was a downfall to Urban growth and how quickly it had happen to the country. Over population means less jobs, less housing, and less food. Imagine are country today living in such drastic conditions. But who tryed fixing the problem? The people fixed it to the best of there abilities, the eventally move off to the suburbs and makes less people in major cities, so work increase in major cities and rural areas. The idea was suburbs, smallers cities outside of major cities. The plan for suburbs where a success, major cities are always going to be crowded but the fact of more homes being built outside of the major cities gave lots of people new work and more room to live. Urban Growth countinues to increase in the years to come.

My name is Jenna M. from Mr. Sal’s ninth period 20th century class. There were a lot of problems in 1890, but one I find really eye catching is social problems. People started having social disagreements because of growth, they disliked eachother (immigrants), and they started to find other ways to start making a better income. What social problems simply means is the dispute between others in a living area. Everyone all together were not getting a long because of the growth and because they needed ways to find better paying jobs. Dr. Herman Biggs was a part of the devision of Pathology, Bacteriology, and Disinfection back around the 1880’s, and he helped people all over New York by showing them why all of the problems had to be fixed. His work helped a little bit but not much, people still didn’t care about others and still fought over places to live, and jobs to feed their families.

Hi my name is Chris Y I am in your period 9. The United States has always been a land of immigrants. Immimgrant are people from other countries to come and live there. In the 1800s and early 1900s Europeans came to American cities to live. Between 1880 and 1920 about 25 million immigrants entered the United States. That was half as many people as lived in the entire country in 1880. The government has been trying to fix and keep thoughs immimgrants out of the United States. It did not work because will still have many illegal Immiigrants in the United States. We have them still here because they are sneaking in and getting there way around.

Hello, I’m Tika R. from Mr. Sal’s ninth period 20th Century History class. Social Problems were associated with a lot of crime, loss of jobs, and some people believed that cities were threatening. Social Problems is defined as the range of conditions and aberrant behaviors which are held to be manifestions of social disorganization and to warrant changing. One of the problems was that people worked in the cities and got very little pay so they had to work other jobs and some jobs were illegal. Another problem was that apartments had no source of fresh air and the structure of them were built in dumbbell form (I); they had dangerous air shafts. Robert M. LaFollette tried to fix some of the social problems. He opposed schemes for heavier taxing on large buildings to cover the cost of conflict. LaFollette discovered the oil scandal and campaigned for public ownership of railroads and utilities. I believe this helped some of the social problems because with people losing their jobs they could turn into thieves and steal oil.

Hi, my name is Jacob P. of Mr. Salvucci’s 1st period 20th century class. Back in the early 1900s child labor was a problem that went by with out much sympathy. Child labor was when some people would hire little children to do work for them with very little to no pay. It was borderline slavery. There are many examples of child labor. One of the examples are that children would work as miners. This was a very dangerous job and it would affect their health mainly their lungs. Another example of child labor is that children would often work as newises. A newise is somebody who walks around to sell news papers. They had kids as little as 8 years old selling from sunrise to sunset. Once again they were paid very little and would often be severly punished if they did not sell a decent amount of papers.
Everybody knew that child labor was wrong, so action was taken. It started state by state. Some states decided to make laws against children under a certain age could not work, or only work limited hours. Many states followed in these actions and now all states have these laws against child labor. For the most part these laws are abided by, but there are still some people out there who use child labor illegally to get work done.

My name is Will H an I’m in period 1. The cost of living has drastically changed. The reason the cost of living was so high was because the resources were being used to much and that made the cost of things go up. Also there weren’t many jobs because of the way the economy was. The economy was in like a depression almost, it wasnt doing very good. People couldn’t work so to the people the cost of living went up. The resources were being used way to much an just being wasted. The government tried to fix the high cost of living by trying to make things less expensive but because of how bad the economy was they couldn’t. The government tried making the sale price of stuff less but couldn’t afford it so they had to make the cost go up more than what it usually did and that’s why it didn’t work. Since the government couldnt get the economy back to were people were used to it they tried doing a economic reform which pretty much means in my words that they tried raising tax on things that you need. When they started taxing all these thing the cost of living went up. The cost of living went up because of the economy.