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U.S History & Public Health Timeline

Andrea santana

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Upton sinclair: the jungle 1906

Hull House Opens 1889

Triangle shirtwaist Factory fire 1911

18th Amendment 1919

19th Amendment 1920

Pure food and drug act 1906

Meat Inspection act 1906

  • This law made it a crime to sell misbranded or contaminated meat.
  • This law made companies have strict rules on sanitary conditions
  • Meat was a part of many people diet and if the meat is dirty, this means diseases and maybe even death.
  • This law was passed to protect the public from harmful foods and drugs.
  • For preventing the making, sale and transportation of misbranded or poisonous foods, drugs, and liquors.
  • Many big corporations didn't like this act because their products were not 100% fresh or even safe. Many corporations would have rats crawl into their productions.
  • On August 18, 1920 the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gave American women the right to vote.
  • This was known as woman suffrage.
  • Many activists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott won after a 70-year battle, these groups finally became victorious with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
  • Clearly it was not easy for these women to get this right passed but if it wasn't for their bravery and determination women today wouldn't have these rights that are taken for granted.
  • In the 18th Amendment prohibited the making, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors.
  • This led to be controlled by the Mafia and other gangs a rise in organized crime because of the bootlegging of alcohol became well paid operation
  • The Mafia became skilled at bribing police and politicians to look the other way. This is where a famous criminal was made, Al Capone.
  • It is estimated he earned $60 million annually from the bootlegging he controlled.

JAcob riis : how the other half lives 1880s

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan, New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest in US history.
  • 146 People died and 71 were injuried.
  • Many of those who died were young women and they had little time to escape because there was only one fire escape for all ten floors on the building.
  • The firefighters' ladders were too short to reach the workers that were trapped. Also the nets they had for the workers trapped ripped so they were no use.
  • Upton Sinclair wrote about the harsh living conditions and the abuse many immigrants faced in the United States but specifically wrote issues in Chicago.
  • Upton Sinclair published the Jungle on February 26, 1906
  • In the book the Jungle the main character is an immigrant who hopes for a better lifestyle in America, but he is in a job where many workers are cheated of their wages.
  • "I aimed at the public's heart," he said, "and by accident I hit it in the stomach." this meant that his audience was supposed to make one feel sympathetic for workers not feel sorry for themselves.
  • The Hull House was a place where recently arrived European immigrants.
  • The Hull House opened on September 18, 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
  • The Hull House developed an interest in social reform as a result of union work, played an important role in the education of the middle-class residents at Hull-House.
  • The Hull House exists today as a social service agency, with locations around the city of Chicago

Homestead Strike

June 30, 1892 – July 6, 1892

  • Jacob Riis documented the on the harmful environments in which many New Yorkers lived and worked.
  • During this time many wealthy writers wrote about how poverty is problem of those who lived in it. Riis argued that it was not the people but that it was a social problem.
  • This showed his audience how normal people struggling to overcome the terrible circumstances in which they lived

Hay market riot 1886

  • Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout

Jacob riis 1849-1914

  • On Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Hay market Square in Chicago a labor protest took place which was fighting for rights as the eight-hour workday
  • The Hay market riot happened because of a bombing that took place at the protest.
  • The reason for this riot was because of the terrible working conditions many faced because of the lack of rights to protect them.
  • Jacob Riis published "Children of the Poor" in 1892.
  • In this book he spoke about child labor and the sanitary conditions many families had to suffer through poverty.
  • Jacob Riis was a"muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.
  • Riis photos showed his audience the poor areas in NYC.
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