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-Citation: http://www.politicsarchive.com/election-of-1912-wilson.html
-Summary: He is priming the pump of Business Prosperity. This picture shows that President Wilson developed policies concerning the Tariff, Anti-Trust, and Currency Legislation. Which all that caused the economy to grow. Shows him putting his progressive side of him to work, and willing to regulate trusts.

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Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lives  (Daniel)

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Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lives  (Daniel)

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The first tenement New York knew bore the mark of Cain from its birth, though a generation passed before the writing was deciphered. It was the “rear house,” infamous ever after in our city’s history. There had been tenant-houses before, but they were not built for the purpose. Nothing would probably have shocked their original owners more than the idea of their harboring a promiscuous crowd; for they were the decorous homes of the old Knickerbockers, the proud aristocracy of Manhattan in the early days.

It was the stir and bustle of trade, together with the tremendous immigration that followed upon the war of 1812 that dislodged them. In thirty-five years the city of less than a hundred thousand came to harbor half a million souls, for whom homes had to be found. Within the memory of men not yet in their prime, Washington had moved from his house on Cherry Hill as too far out of town to be easily reached. Now the old residents followed his example; but they moved in a different direction and for a different reason. Their comfortable dwellings in the once fashionable streets along the East River front fell into the hands of real-estate agents and boarding-house keepers; and here, says the report to the Legislature of 1857, when the evils engendered had excited just alarm, “in its beginning, the tenant-house became a real blessing to that class of industrious poor whose small earnings limited their expenses, and whose employment in workshops, stores, or about the warehouses and thoroughfares, render a near residence of much importance.”
-Citation: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45502/45502-h/45502-h.htm
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Ida Tarbell- History of the Standard Oil Company (Jar'Queisha)

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Ida Tarbell- History of the Standard Oil Company (Jar'Queisha)

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Tarbell’s devastating work provides a vivid account of the rough-and-tumble nature of
business around the turn of the century. This excerpt highlights struggles involving John
D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, independent oil men, and railroads. Note in
particular that during the late 19th century, government at all levels, rather than being
an instrument to control big business, was instead used by big businesses as a tool with
which to bludgeon their opponents. It is worth noting that Standard Oil, not feeling they
were doing anything wrong, opened their records to Tarbell's investigation, a decision
they no doubt came to regret. The Company was broken up in 1911, though its
descendants are alive and well today as the Exxon Corporation.
With Congress in such a temper the oil men felt that there might be some hope of
securing the regulation of interstate commerce they had asked for in 1872. The agitation
resulted in the presentation in the House of Representatives of the first Interstate
Commerce Bill which promised to be effective. The bill was presented by James H.
Hopkins of Pittsburgh. In aid of his bill a House investigation was asked. It was soon
evident that the Standard was an enemy of this investigation. Now what Mr. Hopkins
wanted was to compel the railroads to present their contracts with the Standard Oil
Company. The Committee summoned the proper railroad officers and the treasurer of the
Standard Oil Company. Of the railroad men, only one appeared, and he refused to answer
the questions asked or to furnish the documents demanded. The Standard treasurer
refused also to furnish the committee with information. The two principal witnesses of
the oil men were E. G. Patterson of Titusville and Frank Rockefeller of Cleveland, a
brother of John D. Rockefeller. Mr. Patterson sketched the history of the oil business
since the South Improvement Company identified the Standard Oil Company with that
organization, and framed the specific complaint of the oil men, as follows: “The railroad
companies have combined with an organization of individuals known as the Standard
Ring; they give to that party the sole and entire control of all the petroleum refining
interest and petroleum shipping interest in the United States, and consequently place the
whole producing interest entirely at their mercy. If they succeed they place the price of
refined oil as high as they please. It is simply optional with them how much to give us for
what we produce.”
Frank Rockefeller gave a pretty complete story of the trials of an independent refiner. He
declared that at the moment, his concern, the Pioneer Oil Company, was unable to get the
same rates as the Standard; the freight agent frankly told him that unless he could give the
road the same amount of oil to transport that the Standard did, he could not give the rate
the Standard enjoyed. Mr. Rockefeller said that in his belief there was a pooling
arrangement between the railroads and the Standard and that the rebate given was
“divided up between the Standard Oil Company and the railroad officials.” He repeatedly
declared to the committee that he did not know this to be a positive fact, that he had no
proof, but that he believed such was the truth. …
Of course after this controversy the railroads were more obdurate than ever. The railroad
men were active in securing the suppression of the investigations, and they soon
succeeded not only in doing that but in pigeon-holing for the time Mr. Hopkins's
Interstate Commerce Bill…
…In the meantime the Pennsylvania Transportation Company made the most strenuous
efforts to secure the right of way. A large number of men were sent out to talk over the
farmers into signing the leases. Hand bills were distributed with an appeal to be generous
and to free the oil business from a monopoly that was crushing it. These same circulars
told the farmers that a monopoly had hired agents all along the route misrepresenting the
facts about their intentions. Mr. Harley, under the excitement of the enterprise and the
opposition it aroused, became a public figure, and in October the New York Graphic gave
a long interview with him. In this interview Mr. Harley claimed that the pipe-line scheme
was gotten up to escape the Standard Oil monopoly. Litigation, he declared, was all his
scheme had to fear. “John D. Rockefeller, president of the Standard monopoly,” he said,
“is working against us in the country newspapers, prejudicing the farmers and raising
issues in the courts, and seeking also to embroil us with other carrying lines.”.
-Citation: http://wwpsd.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_10640642/File/bugge/Chapter%2021/Day2ReadingsCombined.pdf

Summary
Ida Tarbell had a passion for writing. Later Tarbell became a journalists for The  McClure's Magazines. Doing business with McClure's Magazine led to the exposing of the Standard Oil Company. Tarbell exposed unfair practices of the company. The reason she exposed the company practices was because most of all the events and practices  greatly impacted her and her family.

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During the court case Plessy  V Ferguson the courts decided to make this law that implied citizens were  "Separate but equal". This political cartoon is showing a "car for white folks" and a "Jim Crow car". The political cartoon just shows that in reality the citizens were still not equal. The Car with whites was crushing the blacks (Jim Crow).
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