Progressive Muckrakers

Giving jobs to local supporters

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• public interest
• patronage
• initiative

Wrote “History of the Standard Oil Company,” in 1902. Showed how Rockefeller’s rise was based on ruthless business practices. 

• Ida B. Wells 
• Ida Tarbell 
• Susan B. Anthony 
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton 

1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris 

American reformer and leader in the anti-lynching crusade and women’s suffrage movement.

• Jane Addams 
• Susan B. Anthony 
• Ida B. Wells 
• Ida Tarbell 

Co-founder of Hull Houses- which was an all-purpose community center for poor immigrant people living in crowded city neighborhoods. 

• Jane Addams 
• Ida Tarbell 
• Frances Willard 
• Susan B Anthony 

Photographed conditions of the urban poor in “How the Other Half Lives.” Examined the conditions of the poor in America’s cities. 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris 

1904 - Exposed corruption in city and state gov’t in his book, “The Shame of the Cities.”

• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Upton Sinclair 
• WEB DuBois 

The poll tax, literacy tests, and grandfather clause aimed to keep who from voting

• Poor white citizens
• Black citizens
• Native Americans
• Chinese immigrants

If you, your father, or your grandfather could vote before 1867, you had the right to vote even if you could not pay the poll tax or pass the literacy test

• Separate but equal
• Grandfather clause
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Exclusion Act

The main purpose of a trust is to...

• eliminate competition.
• efficiently use technology.
• guarantee profit.
• form unions.