READING ANALYSIS OVER THE MUCKRAKERS
1. What did newspaper & magazine publishers found that their middle-class readers loved to read about?
2. President Theodore Roosevelt called certain writers "muckrakers"…what did these writers specialize in?
3. One of the earliest muckrakers was a reporter named Henry Lloyd…what did he attack & expose the corruption of?
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4. How did an Irish immigrant's new magazine "McClure's Magazine" in 1893, become a major success?
5. What series of muckraking articles did Ida Tarbell write about that dealt with John Rockefeller's company?
6. What did popular 10-and 15-cent magazines such as McClure's, Collier's, and Cosmopolitan competed fiercely to outdo their rivals with?
7. What did articles by Jacob Riis, one of the first photojournalist, write about & what was it called?
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8. How did Lincoln Steffens' "The Shame of the Cities" (1904) cause a sensation by?
9. What did two of Theodore Dreiser's novels, The Financier and The Titan portray?
10. What did fictional accounts such as Frank Norris' "The Octopus" discuss that was more effective than many journalistic accounts in stirring
up public demands for gov't regulation?
11. List three reasons the popularity of muckraking books and magazine articles began to decline after 1910.
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12. List three ways that muckraking had a lasting effect on the Progressive era.
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