Muckrakers

Subject of How the Other Half Lives

• Problems faced by those living in the inner city, such as poverty and poor living conditions

• Haphazard practiced in Chicago meat packing plants, such as rats running along the meat

• Political corruption in big cities where politicians were more concerned with profit and politics

• Abuses on farmers committed by the railroad company

Subject of The Jungle

• Problems such as poverty faced by people in the cities

• Abuses of the railroad company on farmers

• Horrible practices in Chicago Meat packing plants, such as rats on meat

• Political corruption in major cities

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 

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 

Journalists who exposed practices of monopolies and big business

• Gump Mushers
• Muckrakers
• Scalawags
• Dirt Diggers

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Which two federal acts were passed as a result of the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?

• Anti Sherman Act & Clayton AntiTrust Act

• Federal Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food and Drug Act

• Federal Meatpacking Sanitation & Holy Foods Act

• 16th & 17th amendments

Legislation enacted as a result of "How the Other Half Lives

• Pure Food & Drug Act

• Tenement Housing Act

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

What was Tammany Hall?

• A dance hall for wedding parties

• Central offices where the "Boss" operated from

• The mayors office in New York City

• A Union office for Laborers and Workers