WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Question
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“How the Other Half Lives”
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“The Bitter Cry of the Children”
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“The History of Standard Oil”
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“The Wizard of Oz”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Bitter Cry of Children is a book by socialist writer John Spargo, a muckraker and investigative journalist from the Progressive Period . Published in 1906, it is an exposé of the horrific working conditions of child laborers in the early 1900’s. He discusses the works of the children he saw very emotionally.
Detailed explanation-2: -John Spargo’s The Bitter Cry of Children, published in 1906, was among the most influential and widely read accounts of child labor written during the Progressive era.
Detailed explanation-3: -They were underfed, ill-clothed, and exposed to danger and disease. Spargo suggested that mothers and children needed better medical care, neighborhood nurseries, pure milk and baby food, and better education about nutrition and health. The Bitter Cry of the Children made many people see the evils of child labor.
Detailed explanation-4: -With AFL leader Samuel Gompers he organized the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy in 1917. Spargo helped draft the Colby Note that formalised the Wilson administration’s anti-communist policies. He strongly denounced the Bolshevik Revolution in Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy (1919).