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Muckrakers
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Muckraker
A journalist, author and/or photographer whose work is designed
to expose corruption and abuse of power in politics and big business
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Jacob Riis- Immigrants
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Jacob Riis
Author of “How the Other Half Lives”- creating awareness of immigrant living conditions in the tenements of urban
ghettos.
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Jane Addams- Settlement Houses
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Jane Addams- Helped New Immigrants
Her most famous settlement house, which helped immigrants assimilate to life in the United States was named the
“Hull House”Also was a peace activist during WWI
and a Suffragette
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Lewis Hine- Child Labor
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John Spargo- Bitter Cry of the Children
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Child Labor LawsDue to the work of Hine, Spargo and other
Muckrakers individual states began passing child labor laws
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Upton Sinclair- The Jungle
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Impact of Sinclair’s “The Jungle”
Commerce Department InvestigationMeat Inspection Act- leads to improved regulation over meat sold to the public
Pure Food and Drug Act- creates the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which
forces companies to list ingredients in their food they sell and drug companies to list
side effects of the medicines they sell
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Frank Norris and Lincoln Steffens
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Ida Tarbell
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Because of Ida TarbellJohn D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company is sued for violating the Sherman Anti Trust Act
And in May of 1911, 2 months after the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the
Supreme Court forces the Breakup of Standard Oil (Exxon, Mobil, Amoco, Chevron,
Conoco, etc)Bill Gates and Microsoft were sued for
violating the same law in the late 1990s
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Are Muckrakers a Valuable Part of a Democracy?