Please Answer by Sunday On January 1, 1900, the United States had reason for optimism. Cities were bustling. Industry was booming. One factory owner, Andrew Carnegie, was about to sell his steel company and become the richest man in the world. Not bad for a weaver's son from Scotland. And if Carnegie could make it, why not anyone! However, if you peeled back the excitement and looked carefully, there was an underside. Not every-one in America was making it. In fact, in the absence of clear rules, not everyone in America had a chance of making it. Consider this: First, average earnings for American workers were less than $500 a year. In the South, the average for unskilled workers was closer to $300. And this was at a time when the poverty line for a family of six was $600 Second, hours were long. In 1900, the average work week was 60 hours. In the garment industry of New York City, it was 70 hours. Third, child labor was widespread. In 1900, 26% of boys between ten and fifteen years old were in the work force. For young girls the figure was 10%. Added to this, more than half of adult Americans were denied the right to vote. Women had never had the right, and most black men had lost the vote in the years after Reconstruction. Clearly, America had some work to do.
Define the following words:
1. Optimism
2. Bustling
3. Underside
4. Poverty Line
Use the reading to answer the questions:
1. Why did America have a reason for optimism in the 1900s?
2. How much were the average wages for an American in 1900?
3. What were the average wages for an American in the South in 1900?
4. How long was the average work week in 1900?
5. What percent (%) of boys between the ages of 10 and 15 worked?
Now, we have talked a lot about Progressive issues. You are going to look at some documents for certain issues. Be sure to answer the questions fully.
Document A:
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down if fun or a dollar could be got out of their barks and hides It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods - trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierras. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time - and long before that - God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but He cannot save them from fools - only Uncle Sam can do that.
QUESTIONS:
1. How long did it take to make trees?
2. Why do people cut down trees?
3. According to the author, why should these trees be protected?
4. What is the big issue this is addressing?
5. Is this still an issue today? Why or why not?
Document B
The boys working in the breaker are bent double, with little chance to relax; the air at times is dense with coal-dust, which penetrates so far into the passages of the lungs that for long periods after the boy leaves the breaker, he continues to cough up the black coal dust. Fingers are calloused and cut by the coal and slate, the noise and monotony are deadening While I was in the region, two breaker boys of 15 years ... fell or were carried by the coal down into the car below. One was badly burned and the other smothered to death. This was the Lee Breaker at Chauncy, Pennsylvania, January 6th,1911. The boy who was killed was Dennis McKee.
Note: Breaker boys were often located just outside the mine next to a machine (called a breaker) where they sorted and separated the coal from slate rock
QUESTIONS:
1. What does a breaker boy do?
2. How did Dennis McKee die?
3. What major problem does this address?
4. Is this still a problem today? Why or why not?

Optimism

NOUN

hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something.

"the talks had been amicable and there were grounds for optimism"

Bustle

VERB

bustling (present participle)

move in an energetic or noisy manner.

"people clutching clipboards bustled about"                                                                                                                                            Underside

NOUN

the bottom or lower side or surface of something.

"the butterfly's wings have a mottled brown pattern on the underside"        Poverty line

NOUN

the estimated minimum level of income needed to secure the necessities of life.                                                                                                                                                   1. In 1920, for the first time, the census showed that a majority of Americans lived in cities. We were becoming an urbanized society. And if you lived in a city in 1925, ’26 or thereabouts, you had all these things going for you. In addition, you were getting your first vacation. People didn’t get vacations before the 1920s. You learned how to buy goods on time, so you didn’t defer your expectations. You were working a five-and-a-half day week, not a six-day week… So things looked pretty good.                                            2.The average American worker earned approximately $12.98 per week for 59 hours of work in 1900—$674.96 a year. Most workers did not earn that much money. There were no paid vacations, holidays or sick leave.             3. In 1900, carpenters earned an average of $750 per year. shoemakers made an average of $2.40 per day.  In 1900, public school teachers made an average of $40 per month                                                                             4. In addition, these laws became more restrictive with the average legal standard falling from a maximum of 59.3 hours per week in 1900 to 56.7 in 1920. According to her calculations, in 1900 about 16 percent of the workers covered by these laws were adult men, 49 percent were adult women and the rest were minors.                                                                      5. The 1870 census found that 1 out of every 8 children was employed. 42 This rate increased to more than 1 in 5 children by 1900. 43 Between 1890 and 1910, no less than 18 percent of all children ages 10 ‒ 15 worked. 44 Age was only one consideration in deciding whether a child was ready for work.

Optimism: hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something

Bustling: A bustle; a busy stir.

Underside: The side that is below or underneath, the bottom.

Poverty Line: HHS Poverty Guidelines for 2020

2020 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Persons in family/householdPoverty guideline

1$12,760

2$17,240

3$21,720

1900 the United States had reason for optimism. Cities were bustling. Industry was booming.

The average American worker earned approximately $12.98 per week for 59 hours of work in 1900—$674.96 a year.

the avarage wagers where $500 a year

YearManufacturingConstruction

190059.6                 50.3

1910  57.3                      45.2

192051.2                  43.8

193050.6

the boys ages 10 to 15 worked 26%

Generally speaking, warm climates promote faster tree growth, the same way colder climates promote slower tree growth. Species growing close to the equator could record growths of several meters annually. In this region, it takes between 10 to 20 years for new trees to be fully grown.

People cut down trees for lots of reasons. This is because people need to build stores, houses, and other buildings. People also cut down trees to clear land for agricultural use. In some cases, trees are cut down for wood for fires to heat up their homes and cook food.

the trees where protected because it took more then 3 thousand years to make some

the big issue is that we need trees to breath but they are being destroyed

it is still an issue today becasue people chop trees town for wood for their fireplaces, fire rings, and other things.

A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker in the United States and United Kingdom whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker.

Dennis Laverne McKee, 69, passed away Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 of natural causes

working as a breaker boy kills many boys

i  believe so s

labor leaders and organizations had the power to demand it.

explanation:

workers got a five-day workweek because the bcea protects and respect the rights of the employees. labor leaders and other groups demanded it.

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