Muckrakers

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 

Giving jobs to local supporters

• favorites
• 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