Reformers and Muckrakers in the Progressive Era

1
Reformers and Muckrakers in the Progressive Era

• Five and ten cent magazines such as McClures and
  Colliers competed to expose the most corruption
  in late 19th century America.

2
Ida Tarbell

• A McClures writer, she exposed J.D.
  Rockefellers monopolistic practices in the oil
  industry. Later published The History of Standard
  Oil.

3
Lincoln Steffens

• Wrote about the graft and vote-stealing of
  corrupt political machines in The Shame of the
  Cities.

4
Jacob Riis

• Described the crime, poverty and disease in the
  immigrant tenement neighborhoods of New York City
  in his book How the Other Half Lives.

5
Frank Norris

• Wrote the novel The Octopus describing the battle
  between farmers and the railroads.

6
Ida Wells

• An African-American woman, writing for various
  newspapers brought attention to the lynching of
  African-American men throughout the South.

7
Jane Addams

• Founder of Hull House in Chicago. It became a
  model for the settlement house movement that
  provided medical care, recreation, English
  classes and food for immigrants in the cities