Muckrakers

This muckraker is known for exposing corruption within the oil industry

• Jacob Riis

• Ida Tarbell

• Jane Addams

The agenda of the Muckrakers was to

• support the Government in making laws to support big business

• speak out against the corruption of the Gilded Age and wanted to improve conditions for the poor

• support monopolists in exploiting children, women, and immigrants workers.

Who would have most likely been the person to write the following:

"Every spring they did it; and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water – and cartload after cartload of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public's breakfast."

• Ida Tarbell

• Lincoln Steffens

• Upton Sinclair

During the Progressive Era, Jacob Riis was most well known for

• taking photographs of the living conditions of the poor in tenements

• writing about the horrible conditions in the meat packing plants of Chicago

• operating Hull Houses to assist immigrants with assimilating to American culture.