CHAPTER 1, CONSEQUANCES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION

A lot of changes were made in technology in the 1800's. Most of it was good like the transcontinental railroad and ranching. But some of it had consequences on the world.

the industrial revolution made people wealthy 

and changed small towns into big cities overnight

industrialization changed our political system when private individuals controlled the money in our country

with more industries and factories you had less farms

CHAPTER 2: SOCIAL CHANGES IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

In 1909 a group of people from all races formed the NAACP. the first thing they did was try to end the Jim crow laws.

1889 the Hull house was opened in a poor Chicago neighborhood to help immigrant women and children. The purpose was to educate them so that the wealthy could not take advantage of them in the work place. This was the start of social services.

How The Other Half Lives 

Written by Jacob Riis was the social media of the late 1800's. He wrote about and brought attention to the slums and the poor