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Reformers and Muckrakers in the Progressive Era

Reformers and Muckrakers in the Progressive Era. Five and ten cent magazines such as McClure’s and Colliers competed to expose the most corruption in late 19 th century America. Ida Tarbell.

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Reformers and Muckrakers in the Progressive Era

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  1. Reformers and Muckrakers in the Progressive Era Five and ten cent magazines such as McClure’s and Colliers competed to expose the most corruption in late 19th century America.

  2. Ida Tarbell • A McClure’s writer, she exposed J.D. Rockefeller’s monopolistic practices in the oil industry. Later published The History of Standard Oil.

  3. Lincoln Steffens • Wrote about the graft and vote-stealing of corrupt political machines in The Shame of the Cities.

  4. Jacob Riis • Described the crime, poverty and disease in the immigrant tenement neighborhoods of New York City in his book How the Other Half Lives.

  5. Frank Norris • Wrote the novel The Octopus describing the battle between farmers and the railroads.

  6. Ida Wells • An African-American woman, writing for various newspapers brought attention to the lynching of African-American men throughout the South.

  7. Jane Addams • Founder of Hull House in Chicago. It became a model for the settlement house movement that provided medical care, recreation, English classes and food for immigrants in the cities

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