Problem: Unsafe housing, water, sewage, transportation, homelessness.
Key Terms that need to be included in your project:
Hull House
Jane Addams
Tenements
Immigration
Jacob Riis
Resources:
The Growth of Cities (Mostly answers question #1)
Citation: Author: Diane Hart; Date: 2005; Publisher: TCI
A Call for Urban Reform (Mostly answers question #1)
Citation: Author: Boyer and Stuckey et al.; Date : 2001; Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Reforming City Life (Mostly answers questions #2 and #3)
Citation: Author: Boyer and Stuckey et al.; Date : 2001; Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Progressives Fight for Social Reforms (Answers all 3 questions)
Citation: Author: Diane Hart; Date: 2008; Publisher: TCI
Jane Addams, Reformer (Answers all 3 questions)
Citation: Author: Joy Hakim; Date 1999; Publisher: Oxford University Press
Living Conditions in the Inner City (Answers all 3 questions)
Citation: Author: Mary Beth Norton; Date: 1994; Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Jacob Riis Biography (Answers all 3 questions)
Tenements (Mostly answers #1)
Essential Research Questions
What was the problem that your activist group was trying to improve? (Standard #1B)
What methods/strategies did they use to try to solve this problem? (Standard #1B)
How effective/successful was this group at creating change and why? (Standard #1A and #1C)
How are activists today trying to solve problems that are similar or related to your topic? (Standard #4)
Modern Day Connections for Question #4: