Muckrakers

Book written by Upton Sinclair?

• The Jungle

• History of Standard Oil

• How the Other Half Lives

• The Octupus

Subject of The Jungle

• poverty faced by people in the cities

• Horrible practices in Meat packing plants

• Abuses of the railroad company on farmers

• Political corruption in major cities

Book written by Lincoln Steffans

• The Jungle

• Shame of the Cities

• How the Other Half Lives

• History of Standard Oil

Subject of Shame of the Cities

• Political corruption in big cities

• Abuses of the railroad company on farmers

• Haphazard practices meat packing plants

• Problems faced by people living in the cities

Book written by Jacob Riis

• The Jungle

• How the Other Half Lives

• History of Standard Oil

• McClure's Magazine

Subject of How the Other Half Lives

• Problems faced by those living in the inner city,

• Political corruption in big cities

• Haphazard practiced in meat packing plants

• Abuses on farmers committed by the railroad company

Book written by Ida Tarbell

• The Jungle

• How the Other Half Lives

• History of the Standard Oil Company

• The Octopus

Subject of History of the Standard Oil Company

• Haphazard working conditions in meat packing plant

• Poor treatment of farmers by the railroad company

• Poor living conditions faced by those living in urban areas

• Documented John D. Rockefeller's rise to power and lack of ethics

Laws created as a result of the "The Jungle"

• Pure Food & Drug Act

• Tenement Housing Act

• 21st Amendment

• 17th Amendment

Laws created as a result of "How the Other Half Lives

• Pure Food & Drug Act

• Tenement Housing Act

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment