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Jacob Riis Publishes

"How the Other Half Lives"

Louis Pasteur introduces pasteurization

1856

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• Published in 1890
• documenting squalid (extremely dirty) living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s
• Written to show the awful conditions in the 1880s

• The pasteurization kills microbes in food and drinks such as milk and canned food
• During the process it destroys the bacteria by heated beverages and then allowing then to cool
• These microbes are responsible for souring alcohol
• Today nearly every liquid sold in stores are pasteurized

Hull House Opens

• Hull house first opening was in 1889
• Settlement house (an institution providing educational and social services to the community)
• Located in the Near West Side of Chicago in Illinois
• Open to mostly immigrants

Charles Darwin published Origin of Species November 24, 1859

Children's Bureau is established

1912

• This means Natural Selection or Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
• This is work of scientific literature
• Gave evidence for evolution and suggested what had caused evolution to happen
• Darwin's theory is 'which organism change over time as a result of change inheritable physical or behavioral traits

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Yellowstone becomes the nation's first national park March 1, 1872.

• Located in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
• Established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant
• Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone region for at least 11,000 years

First successful human blood transfusion 1818

• In England
• James Blundell, performs the first successful human blood transfusion to a patient for the treatment of postpartum hemorrhage.
• Used to treat postpartum hemorrhage

Women's Bureau is established

1920

• Promote the welfare of wage-earning women
• Improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency and advance their opportunities
• During 1970s, women joined the work force increase numbers

Flexner Report

1910

• Named after Abraham Flexner
• This report gave rise to modern medical education
• Triggered needs in standards, organization, and curriculum of North American medical schools
• Caused many medical schools to close down

Pure Food and Drug Act/Meat Inspection Act

1906

Marlene G. Laura S.

• These acts were signed by President Theodore Roosevelt
• The pure food and drug act prevents the manufacture of misbranded or poisonous food, drugs, medicines and liquors
• The meat inspection act prohibited sales of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food

Pure Food and drug Administration is created

June 30, 1906

• This protects the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy and security of human
• Ensures the safety of our nation's food supply
• make sure of the safety of animal feeding and effectiveness of animal drugs

18th Amendment

"...The manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within...the United States... is hereby prohibited..."

19th Amendment

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." (Laws.com)

Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle

• Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol
• Completed on January 16th, 1919
• Took effect on January 17th, 1920
• Less violence
• Happier families

• The 19th Amendment was completed/proposed on June 4th, 1919
• Was passed on August 18th, 1920
• Granted the right for woman to vote along side with men
• Established equal rights

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

March 25, 1911

Department of labor added to Cabinet

March 3, 1913

• published February 26, 1906
• Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants

Bessemer Process Is Patented 1851

Invented the mass production of steel from big metal.

How it worked: removed impurities from the iron by oxidation with air being blown through the molten iron.

Allowed the world to have a new way of producing things that would normally take forever. For example buildings were now able to last longer and were less expensive to build.

• responsible for occupational safety, wage and our standards, unemployment insurance benefits, reemployment service and some economic statistics
• Improve working condition
• Help protect retirement and health care benefits, and promotes welfare of the job seekers

• This fire killed 145 workers
• With this accident it led to the development

of series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers

• The fire started around 4:30 pm on the eight floor, workers try escaping by hiding in dressing rooms and bathrooms, unfortunately they died

Children's Bureau is established 1912

Webb Alien Land Law passed in California

1913

• Federal agency organized under the United States department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families
• Today it involves improving child abuse prevention, foster care, and adoption
• William Howard Taft is the founder of this
• It took 9 years for is to be created and established

• Restricted immigration especially japanese
• Limit presence of japanese immigrants from 1913 through the end of War World 2
• Restricted "aliens" rights to agricultural land
• Increased price of land by selling it to overseas investors

Creation of Yosemite Park

• Created October 1st 1890
• Muir and Johnson lobbied (to seek influence on an issue) Congress for the Act that created Yosemite National Park
• Over 1,500 square miles of land
• Nature is protected by the government

Jacob Riss publishes Children of the Poor 1892

Us History & Public Health

• published in 1892
• Talks about child labor and the issues with such act
• Written to bring out the problems of child labor

Pendleton Civil Service act

• United States federal law, made in 1883
• "Established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation." (Wikipedia)
• provided selection of government employees by competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation
• Also made it illegal to fire or demote government officials for political reasons
• Prohibited soliciting campaign donations on Federal government property

Pendleton Civil Service Act