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*Jacob riis was born 1849
* he was a Danish-American social reformer (muckraker)
*he used his photograph skills to expose the horrors of tenement and the lives of poor people
*Wrote a famous picture book containing these images called" other half lives"
* used new indicative "flash light" to take pictures in the dark tenements

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Thomas W. Lawson was a business man who was a seven masted, steel hulled schooner built for the pacific trade, but used primarily to haul coal and oil along the east coast of the United States named for "copper  baron". He published The Shame Of The Cities.

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- Born in Columbus Ohio on October 20, 1873
- Was involved in social movements
- Wrote about dilemmas about the adjustments of immigrants moving in

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Jessica milford was a civil rights activists. She was born semptember 11 1917. She tried many attmpets to help black people be free and the jail system but failed to do so. She tried stop the drafts laws. She wrote a book called the American way of death.

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Frank Norris was a writer who dramatized the struggle between the southern pacific railroad and California farmers
Born: March 5 1870

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Jessica milford was a civil right activists. She was born Semptember 11 1917. She worked as a secretary for many years. She tried to stop a black mans ex

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Henry Demarcation Lloyd
Born May 1st 1847 in NYC, died September 28th 1903
Henry Lloyd attacked corporate power of oil companies he exposed standard oil company.

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- A journalist known for her book called The history of the standard oil company
- The history of the standard oil company was about John d. Rockefeller and how he owned the monopoly on the oil industry
- Rockefeller was raising the prices on oil
-Ida Tarbell was writing articles and her book about the monopoly about oil

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Nellie Bly was an American journalist known for pioneering reporting. She was born in 1864 in Pennsylvania. Nellie reported the conditions of asylum patients in 1887. She stood up against one of Erasmus Wilson's articles stating woman were a monstrosity.

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McClure'sBorn: April 17, 1870, Lansing MI
Died:July 12, 1946, Amherst, MA
He graduated from Michigan Agricultural College and joined Magazine working with Lincoln Stephens and Ida Tarbell

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~Burton J. hendrick was an American author who wrote "The Story of Life Insurance.
~He was born December 8, 1870 in New Haven Conneticut who grew up to be a biologist, author, historian, etc.
~books he made were "Training an American", "The Story of Insurance" and along with some biographys.

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Born: October 20 1873
She was the secretary of treasury for the New York commision in 1909

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In 1906, Sinclair acquired his fame for his classic muckraking book The Jungle. Which portrayed the horrible unsanitary conditions men, and children were working in. People were more concerned about how meat was handled in meat packing plants, which led to the Meat Inspection Act. But Sinclair was in it for the corruption, while he was undercover in the meat packing plants he published his first novel Appeal to Reason in 1905.

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Charles Edward Russell was born in Davenport, lowa, on Sept. 25, 1860, the son of the abolitionist editor of the Davenport Gazette. Charles learned newspaper skills and attended the St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy, from which he graduated in 1881. He then returned to become the Gazette's managing editor. He later became an editor in Minneapolis and Detroit and then moved on to New York City. In 1894 he was city editor of Joseph Pulitzer's World and then a Hearst editor in New York And Chicago.Meanwhile a literature of protest (muckraking) had appeared on the American scene, and Russell found himself part of it. The Greatest Trust in the World (1905) muckraked the beef trust in Chicago. In the popular magazines he effectively exposed a wide range of social evils, from New York church-owned slums to southern prison camps. The Uprising of the Many (1907) and Lawless Wealth (1908) summed up some of the reasons why he joined the Socialist party. His writings earned him a national reputation. He campaigned for governor, mayor, and U.S. senator in New York State. In 1916 he declined the Socialist party's presidential nomination.

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Burton J. Hendrick
Born on December 8th, 1870

Made "The Story of Life Insurance" in 1906

He made it because of the insurance scandals of 1905-1906 which made Hendricks into a "muckraker"

It changed abandonment and perversion of sound life-insurance ideas that made possible the dishonest and extravagant use of life-insurance funds.

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Book: The Story of Life
What: life insurance companies
Bio: American Author, born in 1870
Education: Yale University

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Bio- Thomas was a Seven-masted, steel-hulled schooner he built for the Pacific trade, he primarily hauled coal and oil along the East Coast.
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Who- Thomas was an American businessman and author
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Samuel Hopkins Adams was an American writer and muckraker. He contributed in Collier's, the National Weekly in 1905 which was a series of articulate exposing quack patent medicines. He also wrote several other pieces exposing dishonorable practices and medicines. The medicine they used for patients were not good and through his writings he helped to change them to make them better. He played a big role in social justice movements by reporting the ugly side of American society.

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Born September 11, 1917 in England,
Mitford was the author of many books in the Gilded age, namely "The American Way of Death". This book focused on the fact that death was so widespread, that it was a norm, and funeral directors tended to be less than sentimental about the deceased and their families. They used the rising death rates as a way to make money off of the grieving families. Her novel ensured that in the future, funerals would be cheaper and easy to plan without extra expenses.

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1830-1885 Hellen Hunt Jackson was an American poet and writer who became an activist for better treatment of Native Americans. Her most famous novel was Romona that was written in 1884. It dramatized the governments treatment of Native Americans. This attracted attention for her cause.

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Ray Stannard Baker grew up in Lansing, Michigan and graduated from current day Michigan State University. He was a reporter for The Chicago Record.Revealed the living of poor people. He showed the the soup kitchens, the charitable foundations and the people living on the streets.

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Upton Sinclair was involved with socialism which led him to an assignment to write about the conditions of a meatpacking  industry which led to a best selling novel "the jungle". His book thought people about the animal cruelty and poor working conditions and forever changed the way people shopped for food. Some of his political returns were the meat inspection act and the end poverty in California (EPIC) during th grant depression.

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John Spargo was born on January 31 1876 and died in 1966. He lived in Vermont and was a early biographer.
He was trying to fix the dangours and difficult lives that child workers had. He exposed this way of living by writing books about it. Laws that came from him was the banning of child labor law, and he also changed the education children received.

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Nellie ably was a woman who traveled around the world in 72 days. She was born may 5, 1864. She was a journalist who wrote about many things, including a womens asylum. Nellie traveled around the world to prove that the book, Around the world in 80 days was possible. Nellie died January 27, 1922, at the age of 57.

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Samuel Adams was a Muckraker was an American inventor.
Samuel Adams exposed the patent medicine and how some of the medicine the were giving people did not help them but made them worse.
Adams wrote a book called The Great American Fraud which was published in 1906.
What changed was that people stared to actually regonize what he was saying.
In 1911 the Supreme Court said that the only problem was the ingredients of the medicine. Adams continued to right novels and articles about thus issue

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Jacob August Riis was born May 3, 1849 in Ribe, Denmark. Jacob when in New York was a police reporter, he wrote about the poor living conditions in the slums of New York. He published his findings in a book called "How the Other Half Lives." Jacob was trying to show upper class people the "other half" of society and there horrible living conditions. He exposed this to people through articles and his own book. Some of the reforms that were passed because of Jacob are improved living conditions by tearing down old run down housing and replacing it with new buildings along with making new parks.

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Helen Hunt Jackson was a poet,

novelist and essayist who fought for Native American rights. Her work improved the treatmeant of Native Americans by the US government. One of her novels, Ramona, attracted a lot of attention to her novel. She attended a lecture by the Ponca Chief Standing Bear, who described the forcible removal of the Ponca Indians from their Nebraska reservation and transfer to the Quapaw Reservation in Indian Territory, where they suffered from disease, climate and poor supplies. This caught her attention.  She exposed the government's violation of treaties with the Indian tribes and documented the corruption of US Indian agents, military officers and settlers who encroached on and stole Indian lands. She wrote  a book that is considered her most important, A Century of Dishonor. She sent a copy of the book to each member of Congress with a quote from Benjamin Franklin on the cover. The book condemned state and federal Indian policy, detailed the history of broken treaties and called for significant reform in government policy toward Native Americans.

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John Spargo was born in 1876 and died in 1966. He was a renowned history expert in the state of Vermont and was a biographer when he was young and a journalist.
He made a book that's titled "The Bitter Cry of the Children" which was about women and children who faced hardships in the Progressive era about working in unsanitary and low paying jobs for how much and how hard they worked. The book helped society see this issue and child labor laws are still in use today.

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Who: Thomas W. Lawson