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Thomas Nast
the reason i like Thomas Nast is because he helped break up  corrupt political race.
1.he drew political parties
2.famous picture of santa

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Upton Sinclair wrote the book called the jungle. He wanted people to know about poor working issues, but that was never bought to light. Instead it made known to all the poor and unhealthy food problems. Some examples were bugs and gross stuff in the meat and diesased food.

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Frank Norris
-Born march 5, 1870 journalist and sometime novelist.
-Frank Norris advocated for farmers and described the struggle for farmers against the railroads in a book called the Octopus, the way he was exposing the railroad and the monopoly business was by writing books on the issues.

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Jacob Riis
(May 3 1849-may 26 1914)
-focused on on photographic talents to try and improve New York City streets.
-Living in New York long n poverty Riis became a police reporter and reported life in the slums.
-he tried to open the eyes to the upper class of what the streets were like for the lower class.
-he wanted to make a change for the city.
-he influenced a change of life in the city of New York City.

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William Thomas stead
Born July 5th 1848 died April 15th 1912
English newspaper editor as a pioneer of inverstigative journalism.

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Kasey Swift, was the editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. She was a early civil rights supporter and she exposed the influence of political bosses on Atlanta politics with a book, "Keys to the city". By writing this fiction book it showed people the real side of political influencers and made a difference in the gilded age.

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Jessica mitford
English author, journalist, civil rights activist, politician campaigner, and was one of the Mitford sisters
Involved in the civil rights campaign wrote a book called "life it self manship or how to become a precisely because man"
Civil rights act

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I.F Stone
*I. F. Stone was a politically radical American investigative journalist and writer.
*Born: December 24, 1907, Philadelphia
*He was a civil rights activist.

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-Frank Norris was an American journalist during the progressive era.
-Frank was trying to teach people on how the Pacific Railroad had a stranglehold on Californian farmers. He published the book "The Octopus" it dramatized how the railroad had an affect on California farmers.
- He focused on how large corporate monopoly companies had an affect on others.

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Chase Hammock
Westbrook Pegler was an American journalist and writer. He wanted to uncover corruption in the union and stop crime. During his time he uncovered corruption and wrote about it.  He also wrote articles on organized crimes connection with the union.

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Upton Sinclair
-He helped with the hopelessness of the immigrants working in Chicagos stockyards
-Because of how filthy the working conditions were.
-He wrote The Jungle and after people read it they made federal food rules.
- Born Sept. 20th 1878 in Baltimore, MD

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John Spargo
Was born January 31, 1876 in Cornwall England. He died August 17, 1966. During his lifetime he devoted his life to helping children that spent their days in dangerous working conditions. He made a book that was about his idea to help the children who worked all day.
-the book was called The Bitter Cry of the Children.
- He helped put an end to working children.

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John sprago
Was born in the United Kingdom on January 31, 1876. During his life he was elected president of the Barry Trades and Labor Council. He also became a member of the National Executive Committee of the social democratic federation. John Spargo wrote the book "The Bitter Cry of Children" about child labor and the book called "Underfed School Children." John Sparta helped with the women's suffrage and African American civil rights;

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Helen Hunt Jackson was an American poet and writer she lived from 1830-1885.
One book she wrote aimed to help Native Americans affected by detailing the hard ships taken agianst them.
She made her life's work to help those hurt by congresses treatment of Native Americans. She wrote 15 books and sent a copy of a century of dishoner to every member of congress.

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Fremont Older
- A newspaper man born August 30, Died March 3 1935. He lived and worked in San Francisco.
- He is known for taking on the boss. Mayor Eugene E Schmitt and Abe Ruef. Firing blows about corruption in the rail roads everyday. Soon enough Abe Reuf was sent to jail     For boodling.

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Thomas W. Lawson
Known for his push for reform in the stock markets. He was born on February 26, 1857. He was a republican. The Stock and Exchange Commission happened because of him. He was very rich and that made it easy for him to expose his ideas.

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George Seldes

. He was an American Investigative journalist
Born November 6 1890. Born in NJ.
.He was fighting injustice and trying to justify reform with his journalism. Such as when he was appointed in the Pittsburgh Post, in 1914, he was able to express his beliefs.
. He later was able to express his thoughts in the Chicago Tribune.

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Cecil Chesterton
Born: November 12, 1879- December 6, 1918
He was an English journalist and a political commentator
He tried to fix inside trading in the Chicago stocks
He exposed the inside trading through a trial that  didn't win him much but it opened a investigation with the government
Marconi's American

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Cecil chesterton
Born: November 12, 1879
Died: December 6, 1918
He was an English journalist and a political commentator
He was born in Kensington, London
He exposed the inside trading though a trail that didn't win him much but it opened a investigation with the government.

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Samuel Hopkins Adams
Adams was a progressive who was born in New York in 1871. He was focused on fixing patent medicine, and how some medicines were actually harmful. The way he brought up muck was by writing books and articles, like "The Great American fraud" and "The Health Master". His efforts helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. He died in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1958

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Bio-
- born February 26th 1857
- died February 8th 1925
- Stockbroker and author
- he assisted addicks interests to wrest the control of bay State gas from standard oil in 1894
- though the addicks lost shortly after
- his abilities were recognized by the standard oil magnetes and soon he became their ally
- he published several books some were a hit in the market but some were not as popular
- he lost alot  of money as he became older and ideas poor man.

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Bio
- Born: November 5th 1857 in PA
- American teacher, author, and journalist
- interestingly was the daughter of a small oilman who was eventually driven to the wall by Rockerfeller's monopoly
- Died : January 6th 1944

Trying to fix in Society
- Unfair practices of oil companies /Standard Oil Company/
Cracking oil trust

How are they exposing it
- Best known for writing "History of a Standard Oil Company"

Result
- Due to her work Rockerfeller's Standard Oil Company ended up splitting into 34 "Baby Standards"

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Bio- Lincoln Steffens was a New York reporter who started a series of articles called Tweed day in St.Louis. Later they were published in a book called The Shame Of The Cities.
What was he trying to fix in society- His exposes of corruption in government and business helped build support for reform.

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-He was a New York reporter
-He launched a series of articles in St.Louis
-He was trying to fix the corruption of the government
-He showed how corrupt politicians won elections by bribing and threatening voters and revealed how political corruption affected all aspects of life in a city
-He published a book called The Shame of the Cites

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*Nellie Bly*
American journalist
Real name is Elizabeth Cochran
Originally from pennsylavania
Born on May 5, 1864
-she was trying to fix women's rights issues became known for her undercover reporting
-She exposed poor working conditions faced by women
-She went under cover at an infamous mental hospital at Blackwell Island , she successfully exposed the treatments in the New York news paper (New York world)

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~Undercover journalist that would record anything she found
~Her full name was  Elizabeth Jane Cochran but she went by Nellie ably because she was undercover
~She wrote about women's rights
~She exposed very poor working conditions
~She went to a Asluym and faked that she was insane
~Nellie published a book called Ten Days in a Mad House where she shared all of the horror stories
~With all the attentions these Aslyms were getting,the conditions got better over the years
~Nellie earned $5 a hour for her work
~During her book she wrote about how at the hospital they gave her spoiled food and dirty water, the bath was fridged cold water overall her expieance was horrible
~She just wanted to expose all the horrible ways women were treated and how the insane people you could say we're treated bad

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-Wrote "The Jungle"
-Born in 1878, died in 1968
-Grew up on the edge of poverty
-Released "The Jungle" in 1906, exposing the mistreat of workers in the meatpacking  industry.
-Book was originally rejected by publishers
-Caused the public great shock after they learned about the abuse torwards animals and unsanitary conditions.
-"The Jungle" changed the way people shopped for food and caused great public outcry.
-Pure food Act and Meat Inspection Act were passed in 1906 as a result.

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Ida Tarbell

Bio: Born on November 5, 1857 in PA
Died January 6, 1944 in CT

She was trying to fix Oil Companies prices and specifically John D. Rockefeller using ruthless methods to take down his competitors. For example by charging higher prices so he would get a higher profit. She exposed him by writing The History of Standard Oil. Then the government found out and said he was violating the anti trust act.

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Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford was an English author, journalist, civil rights activist and political campaigner, and was one of the Mitford sisters. The book she is remembered for was "The American Way of Death." This book described in a gruesome way of how people were living yet also dying in the unsanitary busy cities. She first started by writing articles about these investigations which later became her known still today book. It is also said that her book helped with medical researchers to help those in need. Her book also showed how the corpse were treated.

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Jacob Riis
-Riis tried to fix how poorly the living conditions were for the poor.
-Jacob Riis was a photographer for the New York Evening Sun.
-One act that was passed was the New York State Tenement House Act.
-This banned the construction of dark and poorly ventilated tenement buildings.
-Wrote How The Other Half Lived.