“Newsies” Movie Assignment On July 18, 1899, the tensions between the ruthless newspaper magnates and their "distribution apparatus" of newsboys--over the ten-cent price hike begun late the previous year--flared into action with a small riot against a delivery wagon in Queens. The next day, the newsboys of New York City got together and decided to go on strike
against the big publishers, setting off two and a half weeks of chaos. "Newsies" takes its inspiration from the New York
newsboys strike which began in mid-July 1899 against Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph
Hearst's New York Journal.

1. How does the movie depict (show) child labor? How does it compare to the life of children in real life
during this time period?

2.How do Hearst and Pulitzer run their businesses? How does this compare to other entrepreneurs of the
time?
3. How do the actions of the paperboys compare to other labor actions of the era?

4.How is city life depicted in the movie? What evidence is there of the Industrial Revolution?
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