Positives and Negatives @ Lowell

From the L.M.G. we got a great amount of information on what life was like working at Lowell for these young women.  The packet is a pretty good secondary source that explores several different areas.

Housing, Working Conditions, Job Positions, Social Life/Lifestyle.

For each of those areas you should be able to give some positive facts and some negative facts.

For Example

Housing: 

(+) food was supplied to the women that lived in the houses

(-) living conditions were very crowded and cramped 

Some other questions that were discussed in class that we wrote down were:

1.) Why did the women have a difficult time getting the reforms passed?

2.)  Who was Sarah Bagley and what did she set up?

3.) What method did Sarah Bagley use to try and get outside help for the women of Lowell?

4.) Who was receiving bonuses for high production output in the mills?

Tonight for homework each class (but 4th) had to identify another 5 people and or terms that were assigned in class.  You should have ten terms now defined for class tomorrow.