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Causes of the Progressive Era
Goal 7
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Urbanization
• Caused by the Guilded Age• Immigrants coming to the USA from Eastern
Europe• Industrialization created the need for jobs• Farmers are out of work due to Bonanza Farms
(big business farms)RESULTS –
- Led to tenement houses: Disease- -JacobRiis – “How the Other Half Lives”
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Urbanization
• Results (Con’t)• Lack of government response led to POLITICAL
MACHINES– Helped immigrants get on their feet (gave $)– Boss Tweed ran Tammany Hall in NYC (political
Machine)– Corruption!!!
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Tenement Houses
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Boss Tweed
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Thomas Nast
• Brought down Boss Tweed with his cartoons
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Labor Unrest
• Industrialization led to greedy factory owners• 18+ hour work days• Low Pay• Children employed• Led to the rise of UNIONS– Strikes were violent
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Monopolies
• Big Business Controlled gov’t• Carnegie – Steel (Vertical Integration)• Vanderbilt – RR (Horizontal Integration); led to
creation of trusts and ultimately anti-trust laws
• Rockefeller – Standard Oil (Horizontal)• RESULTS – Politicians eventually started to
crack down