PRESENTATION OUTLINE
1) Laissez Faire was favored by Robber Barons, since government couldn't interfere with businesses.
2) Robber Barons will stop at nothing to get money and are very powerful. They have very harsh business tactics.
3) Created by President William Taft, the Children's Bureau was to save children who were suffering from child labor.
4) William Taft was the president who busted more trusts than any other president.
5) Many workers lived in tenements, dark, very cramped and narrow apartments. They were normally in poor conditions.
6) Muckrakers would document the horrible conditions and corruption in society back then. They worked to try and bring better care for workers.
7) Like Laissez Faire, Social Darwinism was also favored by robber barons because it enforced the idea of "survival of the fittest," meaning weak/poor are less important than the strong/rich.
8) The 18th Amendment prohibited the sale of alcohol, or prohibition.
9) Immigrants would have to arrive at Ellis Island, a small island that processed most immigrants during 1892.
10) The Meat Inspection Act had to be passed because of how terrible the health conditions were. Workers didn't wash their hands before handling produce which cross contaminated many foods.
11) After the 19th Amendment was passed, women were granted suffrage
12) The 16th Amendment allowed Congress to charge an income tax.
13) Many immigrants moved to ethnic enclaves, little areas that still held some of their culture and traditions.
14) One famous robber baron and monopolist, John D. Rockefeller, was one of the richest people in America. He established Standard Oil and started trusts.
15) Thomas Edison was the one who made the very first light bulb, which is still used to this day.
16) Henry Ford was the one who first perfected the assembly line as well as created the Model T, a car that more people could afford
17) After the publishing of "Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, the Meat Inspection Act was passed. In his book Sinclair exposed all the horrible health habits of handling meat and cross contamination, as well as the workers sanitation.
18) Jane Addams was an American activist, and the one who first opened a YMCA in Chicago.
19) Jacob Riis was the one who exposed how the conditions were in tenements in his book "How The Other Half Lived."
20) Nativism was a preference for Native-born people, and also wanted to limit immigration.
