Muckrakers
- __________________ journalists who highlight corruption,
Chicago’s
Meat Packing
Industry
abuse, or unsafe conditions in ______________________, society, or
_________________ and call for _______________.
Muckraker/
Publication
Journalist
Jacob Riis
Exposed
Resulting Legislation or Effect on
(What problems did he/she expose?)
American Society
How the Other Half
New York passed the nation’s first
Lives (1890)
meaningful laws to improve tenements.
Working conditions, exploitation of immigrant
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
workers, and unsanitary conditions in Chicago’s
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Meat Packing Industry.
The Shame of the
Spurred need for electoral
Cities (1904)
reform…many states adopted secret
ballots, initiative, referendum and recall
measures.
David Graham
Criticized influence of big business on
Phillips
Senators.
Unfair business practices such as “rebates”
More Anti-Trust Legislation
used by Rockefeller’s Oil Trust to put small
Hepburn Act (1906)
companies out of business
Mann-Elkins Act (1910)
Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)