Muckrakers and Progressives by Mrs. Braunstein

Name of Progressive

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Group Members

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Photo of Progressive

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General Description

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Generally, who was this progressive, and what did they try to reform?

Person's Motivation

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Why this person was motivated to solve this problem

Specific Actions

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The efforts or steps they took and accomplished -- in more detail than in the general description

Photo of their work

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You may include 1-3 photos of their work - especially since many Muckrakers wanted to show the world what needed fixing. But please explain all visuals

Legacy Today

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Legacy today -- are our lives better today? Explain how this progressive's change led to better conditions for us today -- or, if we still have work to do in this area

Ethan Roth, Shane fitzpatrick, Kyra Campbell

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By: Abby, Manya, Aana

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Kate, Shayla, Brandon

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Monika, Connor, Lea

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Devin S., Mia M., Von R.

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By Tyler, Niharika, James

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A leader of the settlement houses movement that worked to better the lives of the poor, opened Hull House

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Motivations: Addams felt that her purpose in life was to improve the living conditions of the urban poor. She also wanted to improve education.

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Motivation

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Ida was born on oil field in Pennsylvania and this spurred her to later write about standard oil she wanted to expose the business for their wrongdoings to protect workers.

Addams opened a settlement house with her friend Ellen G. Starr in 1889, known as the Hull House. She founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919 and gave several speeches throughout her lifetime, including one in 1913 commemorating the building of the Peace Palace and one in 1915 regarding the first World War. Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

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Cassandra, Alan, Ryu

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Specific actions

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Hine took many photos of child labor and the poor working conditions they were in. He believed that if people saw what was happening in the factories, they would demand change

Legacy today

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Ida Tarbell's investigations into the Standard Oil Company began the creation of laws preventing unfair business monopolies, and ensuring that companies were kept to the rules. Today, her legacy motivates journalists to discover the truth, keeping powerful organizations in check. On top of her significant findings, Ida also discovered the American magazine in 1906.

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General Description

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Florence Kelley was a social and political reformer and the pioneer of the term wage abolitionism. She fought against sweatshop for minimum wages, having eight-hour workdays, and to stop children from being taken advantage of.

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Specific Actions

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Tarbell also wrote about public transportation and Abraham Lincoln where she covered his early life and career. But her most famous work is The History of the Standard Oil Company, where she exposed the ruthless business tactics of John D. Rockefeller. She wrote about a number of business topics and lectured throughout the U.S.

General Description

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John Dewey was an American educator and philosopher with a profound belief in democracy. He openly criticized the education system and pursued his idea of reconstruction to encourage creativity in schools and society. He strove for complete democracy by extending voting rights and by ensuring the existence of a fully formed public opinion.

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Specific Actions

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He wrote a book titled The Jungle to expose the terrible working conditions in the meat-packing industry. He also promoted a program called "End Poverty in California". He wanted to buy factories an abandoned farms and lease them to the unemployed.

General Description

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Frances Ellen Watkins was an abolitionist and poet who portrayed the struggles of African Americans in her 1892 novel "Lola Leroy". She has participated in activities as a reformer in the abolition movement, the civil rights movement, and the women's rights movement.

General Description

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A british political writer that focused heavily on the poor working conditions specifically surrounding child labor.

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This illustration shows business owners forcing children to work for their businesses. John Spargo was successfully able to reform about child labor.

Motivations

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She was committed to the struggle for women's rights. She advocated for gender equality, public education, and women's suffrage. She wanted for there to be a positive change in society.

Legacy Today

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John Dewey helped move schools away from memorization and toward creative thinking/problem solving. John Dewey's theories on education can be seen in classrooms today through things such as project-based, collaborative, and experimental learning.

What change/efforts/steps she did

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Frances Ellen Watkins made many changes. Some efforts of hers were being a reformer in the abolition movement, temperance movement, women's rights movement, as well as the civil rights movement.

General Description

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Lewis Hine was muckraker born in 1874, Oshkosh Wisconsin. he started by using his art to bring peoples attention to the unjust child labor laws. He ended up quitting his teaching and becoming a investigative photographer for the National child labor committee.

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This book addressed pressing social and political issues affecting the African-American community. Some of these issues are lynching, race consciousness (or racial identity), and suffrage.

Legacy today

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Today, her legacy for human rights continues to have a positive impact on the African-American movement for equal rights, as she is used as an inspiration. Her other activities in anti-slavery spanned many decades and many states.

Description

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Jacob Riis was a journalist who shined a light on the poor living conditions, disparities in education, and poverty. He did this by documenting the crisis through photography. One of the things he focused on was tenement housing in big cities where immigrants lived.

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Specific Actions

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He wrote a book called "How the Other Half Lives" in 1890 that tought people about the poor living conditions in cities like NY. This shocked a lot of people and made a lot of people focuse on poor living conditions.

Legacy Today

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Today he is known for stimulation the first significant New York legislation to curb poor conditions in tenement housing and publicized the crises in housing, education, and poverty.

General Description:

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Ida Tarbell was a teacher, lecturer, and writer most famous for her book The History of the Standard Oil Company She wanted to expose Rockefeller's shady business practices through her writing and it was published in McClure's magazine. Her work helped push the Standard Oil Company to be dissolved. Her work also helped make things like the FTC (federal trade commission).

Specific Actions

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Helped draft the Colby Note and worked against communism. Openly opposed industrialization and the use of children in the workforce.

Legacy

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He is now recognized as a master American photographer. He helped to change labor laws specifically for the poor and for children by using freedom of speech and the press. He also paved a path for many more photographers to to use their photos to make change.

Legacy Today: Her work on education for children and better living conditions for factory workers have helped shaping today's system where children are educated instead of having to work.

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Legacy Today

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Florence Kelley's work had a lasting impact on worker's rights and working conditions today. She paved the way for 10 hour workdays and minimum wage laws, not to mention worker protection. She is also the creator of the term wage-abolitionism.

Photo of her work

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Motivation

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She wanted to fight for women's rights because her father was an abolitionist with strict principles. She also knew it would be more difficult to fight for women as a part of the workplace. She helped ban child labor in the state of Illinois, and later other states passed similar laws.

Specific Actions

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In 1909, she founded the National Advancement of Colored People and in 1911 the National Labor Committee. She also served as vice president of the National Women's Suffrage Association

Specific Actions

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In 1899, Dewey published his pamphlet, The School and Society, which promoted key concepts of later education reforms, like active learning. He began teaching philosophy and psychology in 1844, where he implemented his own lessons into his curriculums. He got students involved and brought a deeper meaning to teaching. Overall, John Dewey wrote 37 books, and published 766 articles in 151 journals, being regarded as as America’s preeminent philosopher.

Motivation

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John Dewey believed that democracy should not just be in politics and economics but should also be adapted as a way of life. When John entered Chicago, a growing City that was exploding with immigrants, many whom were illiterate, he saw how all the colleges were run by and in the name of rich people. During this time he became more of a populist and a socialist and decided that the school system would need to change for the people.

General Description:

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Upton Sinclair was born in 1878 and died in 1968. He wrote nearly 100 books and won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1943. He was a great example of a muckracker, in that he described problems afflicting America in his works particularly about meatpacking and working conditions in several major industries, including coal and oil. He ran for governor of California in 1934 and gave speeches about progressive reforms.

Motivation

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Jacob Riis had come to America in 1870. He had been an apprentice carpenter, and had left for America because he disliked the poor job prospects in his home country. He endured many difficult conditions and even spent some time homeless, with only a stray dog for a companion, before he found stable work and began to experiment as a writer.

Why this person was motivated in this area?

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John Spargo was heavily involved with movements like the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy and even founded a settlement house in N.Y. These facts offer insight into why he felt strongly against child labor.

Why this person was motivated in this area

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His father died which forced Hine to support his family and go to work from a young age. He got first hand experience to how harsh and exploiting the workforce was. He became a teacher and and learned from both John Dewey and Ella Flagg Young. Hine was the nature study and geography educator at the Ethical Culture School in New York. He learned to capture the social and academic aspects of the school through photographs. This inspired him to use photography to show the truth. Through his work taking photos as Ellis Island and publishing several articles, he met Arthur Kellogg. Working at the Nation Child Labor Committee, Hine became a freelance photographer. He capture photos of many children working in horrible conditions. Usually he had to hide his identity going into the companies since many owners were against social reform.

Motivations:

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A largely unknown fiction writer before his greatest work, The Jungle, he was an observer of the meat packer strikes in Chicago. He interviewed the workers, their families, social workers, and employers on the matter and became disgusted by the entire industry. Both motivated and horrified by the conditions he saw, he published his novel in an effort to radically change the methods businesses process meat.

Legacy Today

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John Spargo's actions helped get children out of working for other people and improve working conditions.

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Legacy Today:

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Upton Sinclair contributed to the formation of the FDA in 1906. This organization still maintains the quality of food products today.

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General Description

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Lincoln Steffens was an American writer who was born in 1866. He was a well-known muckraker of the time, who exposed the corruption of city officials, big businesses, and the government in the articles he wrote about different big cities.

Motivation

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A big motivation for Licoln Steffens was that to expose the political corruption of the city governments of the US. He would write articles that exposed how politicans would often bribe and threaten voters in order to win elections and partner with companies and allowed those companies to charge people high prices. He also wrote about how political corruption affects the city and the people.

Change/Efforts/Actions

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He published a collection of articles called, The Shame of the Cities in 1903, which called out the political corruption that ran rampant through the cities at the time. His articles exposed the excessive fees that Philidelphia allowed utility companies to charge and showed how bribery and threats were used by politicials to get votes.

Legacy

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He exposed the political and economic corruption and built support against that, which led to later reforms. These reforms helped improve the ethics of government and business systems.

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