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Journalists who found and publically exposed real or apparent misconduct
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Muckrakers
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Wrote History of the Standard Oil Co.
esposed monopolistic practices of the Co. |
Ida Tarbell
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Wrote the shame of the cities
concerning poor living conditions in cities |
Lincoln Steffens
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Wrote the jungle
about horrors of food productions meat quality and dangerous conditions |
Upton Sinclair
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Studied and photographed effects of city life and work on poor
wrote how the other half lives |
Jacob Riis
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High rate of poverty and unemployment, bred social problems
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Urban slums
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Killed 146
died because doors were locked and windows were to high |
Triangle shirtwaist factory fire
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A settlement house in Chicago
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Jane adams/hull house
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Created federal income tax
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16th amendment
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Provided direct election of senators
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17th amendment
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Outlawed manufactor and sale of intoxicating liquors
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18th amendment
(prohibition amendment) |
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Enforced 18th amendment
made the entire nation dry |
Volstead act
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Gave women the right to vote
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19th amendment
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Member of WCTU who used hachet to smash saloon bottles and bars
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Carrie A. Nation
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Large strike by coal miners in 1902
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Anthracite Coal Strike
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