Feb. 5 US II • Goal: Discover why change was necessary to clean up early 20 th century America • QOD: Define muckraker • Agenda: Read The Jungle –excerpt by Upton Sinclair, powerpoint on modern day muckrakers • HW: pros and cons due • Ida Tarbell due tomorrow • All signed paperwork due • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8-E8may2Y
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Feb. 5 US II
• Goal: Discover why change was necessary to clean up early 20th century America
• QOD: Define muckraker• Agenda: Read The Jungle –excerpt by Upton
Sinclair, powerpoint on modern day muckrakers• HW: pros and cons due• Ida Tarbell due tomorrow• All signed paperwork due• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8-E8may2Y
MUCKRAKERS CRITICIZE BIG BUSINESS
• Though most progressives did not embrace socialism, many writers saw the truth in Debs’ criticism
• Journalists known as “Muckrakers” exposed corruption in business
• Ida Tarbell exposed Standard Oil Company’s cut-throat methods of eliminating competition
Ida Tarbell
Some view Michael Moore as a modern muckraker
Teddy Roosevelt
• Creates the Meat Inspection Act-safe ingredients and freshness of meat
• Creates Pure Food and Drug Act (truth in labeling)