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    | | Graded Assignment Answer Key Online‚ Outline‚ Deadline! Muckrakers were investigative journalists who exposed corruption in business or government‚ or examined serious societal issues. Several of the most well-known muckrakers worked for McClure’s Magazine‚ where they wrote exposés on large companies‚ meat slaughtering houses‚ and city governments. These prominent and influential reporters

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    Name: Piercen Davis | Date: 02/01/13 | Graded Assignment Online‚ Outline‚ Deadline! Muckrakers were investigative journalists who exposed corruption in business or government‚ or examined serious societal issues. Several of the most well-known muckrakers worked for McClure’s Magazine‚ where they wrote exposés on large companies‚ meat slaughtering houses‚ and city governments. These prominent and influential reporters included Ida M. Tarbell‚ Lincoln Steffens‚ Upton Sinclair‚ and Ray Stannard

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    name thought the mud‚ telling the people about‚ the things that they might not know‚ the corrupt things and bad deals and kickbacks those types of things. A well known muckraker would be Ida Tarbell‚ She dragged John D. Rockefellers name thought the mud‚ exposing bad trust and how he was a ruthless business man‚ Another muckraker was Upton Sinclair‚ He wrote a book‚ to show the American people how bad‚ the food was‚ and how disgusting it was‚ a famous quote of his was "I aimed for the peoples hearts

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    Rudkus who have immigrated to America from Lithuania. As well as explained about the shameless extortion of migrants in the U.S.A. Introduction Upton Sinclair was a young and very poor novelist and political writer in America. He was also the best muckrakers of 1900s. The aim of Sinclair was to rebuild the world when he lived in Princeton Township and wrote his a great novel “The Jungle” (1906). The major concept of the novel is to emphasize the difficulties of working class people and also show the

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    The Effect of the Jungle on American Society By: Evan Mastroianni The Effect of the Jungle on American Society What is a novel? For some it is simply a throw-away piece of material that is only meant to satisfy the individual for a brief moment. It is something that a person preforms to simply kill time and holds know true value to the individual other than filling the allotted ?reading time? on the person?s calendar. For others‚ it is so much more than simply instant

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    Progressives that consists of 35 multiple choice questions on the 6th. The review session for this quiz is tomorrow after school. The quiz is on: • The 16th‚ 17th‚ 18th‚ and 19th Amendments • Reformers – their causes and their works (for muckrakers‚ know writings / drawings). o Jacob Riis o Lewis Hine o Ida Tarbell o Upton Sinclair o Lincoln Steffens o Thomas Nast (city / federal) o Ida B. Wells o Jane Addams

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    This article by Jacob A. Riis‚ has many defying parts that one might not notice at first glance. He really put things into prospective by going into great detail on what he was trying to address. With all the intriguing details that he put into writing it seems as though he was trying to get the attention of any health leaders such as the OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and/or the WHO (World Health Organization) to help improve tenements of the deplorable living conditions in

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    In America there arose many important and long lasting issues and problems and by the late 1800s to the early 1900s many people rose to the occasion to try and solve and fix the issues and problems. These people in this time span solved many political‚ economical‚ and social problems and in the time where they did became popularly known as the Progressive Era. The Progressive Era had its fair share of problems‚ but some of them would drastically change the course of America’s history. (Dictionary

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    packing industry; as such it aroused the ire of a whole nation‚ from President Theodore Roosevelt on down‚ and it contributed enormously to the landmark passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906" (Dickstein 49). But Sinclair was more than a muckraker looking for the next

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    Multiple Choice: 1. Which of the following was NOT a progressive-era Muckraker who published and expose? Upton Saniclair- wrote the Jungle‚ about the meatpacking industry Ida Tarbel: wrote about the Standard oil trusts Lincoln Stefens: wrote about Machine Gov’t and Boss Rule 2. Theodore Roosevelt became known as a “trustbuster” because he directed the Justice Department to prosecute: The Northern Securities Co.- under the Sherman Anti-trust Act 3. Woodrow Wilson was only the second

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