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R.A.W.
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• How did
Thomas Nast
make his
concerns
public?
• Aim#27
• Why were
Muckrakers
successful?
Problem Exposed
Actual
Amount
Courthouse
13,416,932
3,000,000
Lumber account
460,000
48,000
Printing Stationary and
Advertising
7,168,212
1,300,000
Total
24,911,644
4,820,500
• Exposed Boss
Tweed’ s corruption
in NYC politics
• “ Bosses” were
powerful politicians
who controlled all
work done in the city
& demanded payoffs.
Thomas Nast – Exposes Problems
• During 1860s & 1870s Boss Tweed’ s
political organization, Tammany Hall,
cheated NY out of $100 million!
False Bill
Thomas Nast – Problem Exposed
• Used political
cartoons.
Difference
• Nast felt that even if
people could not read,
that most would
understand the
drawings.
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During the 1860s and 1870s,
Tweed and his Tammany Hall
organization cheated New York
out of more than $100 million.
That would be worth
approximately
$1,849,792,88 0.1 6 today!!
Who Stole the People’ s
Money? ‘ Twas Him
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Reforms Made
• “Good Government
Leagues”
– Replace corrupt
officials w/ honest
leaders
I. The Jungle
• Written by Upton Sinclair in
1906.
• Meant to show Americans how
immigrants were treated in
Chicago meat packing factories.
• People will be outraged over the
food.
II. Reform
• The Meat Inspection Act.(1906)
• Sets up system of random food
inspection.
• Pure Food and Drug Act.(1906)
• Sets up FDA, Food and Drug
Administration.
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• Requires all food to be
properly labeled.
• Bans the sale of harmful
food and medicine.
Ida Tarbell
• Exposed Rockefeller and Standard Oil Trust
• Wrote a series of magazine articles, The
History of the Standard Oil Company
• Credited with helping to breakup Standard Oil
trust
I aimed for
America’s heart
and I hit them in the
stomach
--U. Sinclair
On a side note..
• Her father was an oil producer whose
business failed due to his inability to
compete with John D. Rockefeller and
Standard Oil
•"They had never played fair,
and that ruined their greatness
for me," she wrote about the
company
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Jacob Riis
• Exposed the poverty in cities
• Photographer and writer. He
wrote a book, “How the Other
Half Lives.”
• His book led to zoning laws,
building codes, fire protection,
compulsory education laws
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