Muckrakers

1. Muckrakers

2. Progressive goals • Like the populists, they believed that unregulated capitalism and the urban boom required government intervention • Regain control of the government from special interests • Protect organized labor, women, consumers and blacks.

3. Muckrakers • Expose writers that published dirt on social injustice • Upton Sinclair • Lincoln Steffens • Jacob Riis

4. Tenement Reform • Lawrence Veiller exposed the tenement problem in New York • 1901-NY State Tenement House Act: required that new tenements be built around open courtyards to allow light and air. There must be one bathroom for every three rooms

5. Social Gospel • Movement by Protestant minister that applied Christian principles to social problems.

6. Muckrakers • Ida Tarbell • Lincoln Steffens • Theodore Dreiser • Upton Sinclair • Frank Norris • Jacob Riis • Ray Stannard Baker -Florence Kelley -Alice Paul -Carrie Chapman Catt

7. Ida Tarbell • History of Standard Oil • McClure’s Magazine • Exposed Standard Oil abuse

8. Lincoln Steffens • Shame of the Cities • Exposed political corruption

9. Theodore Dreiser • Sister Carrie • Exposed plight of the workers, and greedy business owners

10. Upton Sinclair • The Jungle • Exposed practices in the meat packing industry • Pure Food and Drug Act

11. Frank Norris • The Octopus • Exposed railroad corruption

12. Jacob Riis • How the other half lives • Exposed slums and tenement conditions

13. Ray Stannard Baker • Following the Color Line • Plight of African Americans and lynching

14. Florence Kelley • Child labor practices

15. Alice Paul • Champion of women’s suffrage • NWP

16. Carrie Chapman Catt • NAWSA