1. AGENDA
Quiz!
Muckraking – another type of journalism

2. Warm up:
Think back to industrialization. What were some problems caused by industrialization?
What did people do to fix that?

3. THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
A reaction to industrialization – an attempt to fix the problems caused by rapid growth of cities
First: fix the lives of those living in tenements and slums
Then: fix corruption of Big Business and government

4. HEY – WHAT DOES THIS SOUND LIKE?
Populism!
To help the working class and the working people
To fix issues they see present in society
Populism died out when William Jennings Bryan lost the election… but, it took on a new form through Progressivism

5. Quick discussion: HOW DO PEOPLE ILLUMINATE PROBLEMS OR INJUSTICES IN THE WORLD TODAY?

6. MUCKRAKING To rake muck (dirt, sludge, etc)
To dig up information about people/corporations in an underhanded way
In the Progressive Era: journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt
City councils to Congress

7. MUCKRAKERS Target audience: middle class. WHY? Educated Literate
Can and will vote

8. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Upton Sinclair – muckraker who attacked the country's economic and social ills in the name of social justice
Through writing!
The Jungle – a book on poor living and working conditions of workers in meat packing industry
Unsanitary practices in order to keep up production

9. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Let’s read it!
Three options:
Follow along with me as I read it
Close your eyes and listen to me read it
In your notes, draw what comes to mind as I read it

10. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Create the following chart in your notes and fill it out.
CORPORATION’S LACK OF CONCERN FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
CORPORATION’S LACK OF CONCERN FOR PUBLIC SAFETY
CORPORATION’S APPARENT FOCUS ON PROFITS
THING THAT GROSSED YOU OUT THE MOST

11. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Create the following chart in your notes and fill it out.
CORPORATION’S LACK OF CONCERN FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
CORPORATION’S LACK OF CONCERN FOR PUBLIC SAFETY
CORPORATION’S APPARENT FOCUS ON PROFITS
THING THAT GROSSED YOU OUT THE MOST
Meat has foreign objects in it
Old, adulterated meat with foreign objects and sells it to the public
Workers with TB spit on the floor, where the meat is
So disgusting
- Takes meat that should not be eaten at all, alters it, and charges more for it

12. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle - RESPONSE
Teddy Roosevelt read it, didn’t believe it, and opened an investigation
Report came back true
Demanded Congressional action

13. The Jungle

14. Theodore Roosevelt

15. Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food & Drug Act (1906)

16. Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food & Drug Act (1906)
Established sanitation regulations for the meatpacking industry and federal inspection of meat sold across state lines
Pure Food and Drug Act:
Prohibited the “manufacturing, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious (harmful) foods, drugs, medicine, and liquors.”
Also forbade misleading advertising