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Muckrakers

Explore the vital role of muckrakers like Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, and Jane Addams in exposing societal injustices, leading to reforms in labor laws, housing conditions, and corporate practices. Discover how their investigative journalism shaped laws and empowered citizens to fight against corruption in politics and big business.

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Muckrakers

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  1. Muckrakers

  2. Muckraker A journalist, author and/or photographer whose work is designed to expose corruption and abuse of power in politics and big business How important are journalists in a democracy?

  3. Jacob Riis- Immigrants

  4. Jacob Riis Author of “How the Other Half Lives”- creating awareness of immigrant living conditions in the tenements of urban ghettos.

  5. Lewis Hine- Child Labor

  6. John Spargo- Bitter Cry of the Children

  7. Child Labor Laws Due to the work of Hine, Spargo and other Muckrakers individual states began passing child labor laws

  8. Jane Addams- Settlement Houses

  9. 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

  10. Frank Norris and Lincoln Steffens

  11. Ida Tarbell

  12. Because of Ida Tarbell John 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

  13. Upton Sinclair- The Jungle

  14. Impact of Sinclair’s “The Jungle” Commerce Department Investigation Meat 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

  15. Are Muckrakers a Valuable Part of a Democracy?

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