1. Muckrakers

2. How important are journalists in a democracy?
Muckraker
A journalist, author and/or photographer whose work is designed to expose corruption and abuse of power in politics and big business
How important are journalists in a democracy?

3. Jacob Riis- Immigrants

4. Jacob Riis
Author of “How the Other Half Lives”- creating awareness of immigrant living conditions in the tenements of urban ghettos.

5. Lewis Hine- Child Labor

6. John Spargo- Bitter Cry of the Children

7. Child Labor Laws
Due to the work of Hine, Spargo and other Muckrakers individual states began passing child labor laws

8. Jane Addams- Settlement Houses

9. Jane Addams- Helped New Immigrants
Her most famous settlement house, which helped immigrants assimilate to life in the United States was named the “Hull House”
Also was a peace activist during WWI and a Suffragette

10. Frank Norris and Lincoln Steffens

11. Ida Tarbell

12. Because of Ida Tarbell
John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company is sued for violating the Sherman Anti Trust Act
And in May of 1911, 2 months after the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Supreme Court forces the Breakup of Standard Oil (Exxon, Mobil, Amoco, Chevron, Conoco, etc)
Bill Gates and Microsoft were sued for violating the same law in the late 1990s

13. Upton Sinclair- The Jungle

14. Impact of Sinclair’s “The Jungle”
Commerce Department Investigation
Meat Inspection Act- leads to improved regulation over meat sold to the public
Pure Food and Drug Act- creates the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which forces companies to list ingredients in their food they sell and drug companies to list side effects of the medicines they sell

15. Are Muckrakers a Valuable Part of a Democracy?