Reforms of the Gilded Age

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1 Name Period Teacher Date Reforms of the Gilded Age Working Conditions Why was it an issue? (Use background knowledge!) Act/Program What did this act/program accomplish?

2 Living Conditions Why was it an issue? (Use background knowledge!) Act/Program What did this act/program accomplish?

3 Working Condition Reforms Pure Food and Drug Act An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes it shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture within any Territory or the District of Columbia any article of food or drug which is adulterated or misbranded, within the meaning of this misbranded, as used herein, shall apply to all drugs, or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, the package or label of which shall bear any statement, design, or device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular Keating-Owen Child Labor Act no producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce in which children under the age of sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work, no producer shall engage in commerce if children under the age of fourteen years have been employed or permitted to work, or children between the ages of fourteen years and sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work more than eight hours in any day, or more than six days in any week, or after the hour of seven o'clock postmeridian, or before the hour of six o'clock antemeridian The Meat Inspection Act (1906)

4 For the purpose of preventing the use in interstate or foreign commerce of meat and meat food products which are unsound, unhealthy unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for use as human food, the Secretary of Agriculture may order inspectors to examine and inspect all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats before they shall be allowed to enter any slaughtering, packing, meat-canning, rendering, or similar establishment; and all cattle swine, sheep, and goats found on such inspection to show symptoms of disease shall be set apart and slaughtered separately from cattle, etc., shall be subject to examination, and all carcasses or labeled, marked, stamped, or tagged as Inspected and condemned and shall be destroyed for food purposes by the establishment [meatpacker]in the presence of an inspector.

5 Living Condition Reforms The Tenement House Committee-Columbia University formed in 1898, which put through an investigation of housing conditions and a campaign of public education the Committee was formed with the purpose of securing the enforcement of existing laws protecting the health and safety of tenement dwellers; closely following new legislation affecting the tenement question, opposing dangerous bills and supporting beneficial measures; studying present housing problems; and carrying on an active educational campaign for better tenement conditions. New York Department of Street Cleaning George E. Waring on the effects of the Department of Street Cleaning New York is now thoroughly clean in every part Clean streets means much more than the casual observer is apt to think. It has justly been said that 'cleanliness is catching,'and clean streets are leading to clean hallways and stair cases and cleaner living-rooms." Street cleaning department :Before and After

6 Tenement House Act 1901 Chapter 2- Fire Safety Section 11. Every tenement house hereafter erected exceeding six stories shall be a fireproof tenement house Section 12. Every non fireproof tenement house shall have fire escapes located and constructed Chapter 3-Light and ventilation 67. every tenement house hereafter erected every room shall have at least one window opening directly upon the street such window shall be so located as to properly light all portions of such rooms 70. Rooms, size of all rooms shall be of the following minimum sizes each apartment there shall be at least one room containing not less than one hundred and twenty square feet of floor area

7 Chapter 4- Sanitary Provisions 95. Water-closet accommodations there shall be a separate water-closet in a separate compartment within each apartment 105. Cleanliness of buildings- Every tenement house and every part thereof shall be kept clean and free from any accumulation of dirt, filth, or garbage the owner of every tenement house or part thereof shall thoroughly cleanse all the rooms, privies, water-closets, cesspools, drains 109. Receptacles for ashes, garbage, and refuse- The owner of every tenement house shall provide for suitable convivences for ashes, rubbish, garbage, refuse and other matter.

8 Name Date Your Community Today Directions: Think about the world and community you live in today and describe each topic Daily life of a child: Cleanliness and safety of food you buy (Cereal, cold cuts, ego waffles): Branding of food and nutrition (Could you find out what s in your food? Is it labeled correctly?): The Safety and cleanliness of hotel/apartment rooms: The cleanliness and safety of the street outside your home: Sanitation departments (Are there people who are paid to keep things clean and safe?):