Cleaning up America Muckrakers journalists who exposed corruption in government business and society Ida Tarbell Journalist who exposed corruption at Standard Oil in Major newspaper articles Upton Sinclair ID: 267488
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Muckraking and the Disenfranchised Slide2
Cleaning up America
Muckrakers- journalists who exposed corruption in government, business and society
Ida Tarbell- Journalist who exposed corruption at Standard Oil in Major newspaper articles Slide3
Upton Sinclair
Author of
T
he Jungle Described the horrible working conditions in food factories Detailed the horrible conditions of food preparation
Led to Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat inspection actSlide4
Triangle Shirtwaist Company (1911)
A fire breaks out in a ten-story textile-building killing over 140 women workers
The building had no sprinkler system
Led to new laws regulating working conditions and fire codes Slide5
Florence Kelly
Worked to improve the lives of children and women
Became a leader in getting Child Labor laws passed Slide6
T.R. and Conservation
1883- Roosevelt spent time in the badlands of N.D.
He was astonished at the number of buffalo being killed, and land being destroyed
Vowed to protect American lands Slide7
National Parks created by T.R.
Crater Lake National Park
Wind Cave National Park
Sully’s HillChickasaw National ParkMesa Verde National Park
Also added land to Yosemite National Park