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Jacob Riis
picture linkHow the other half lives was published in 1890, this story describes what it is like to live the slum life. These are some quotes from his story,"...you might stumble over the children pitching pennies back there. it wouldn't hurt them; kicks and cuffs are their dail diet...In the dark bedroom a child is dying wirh measles...Step carefully over this baby-it is a baby, spite of its rags and dirt." -
Frank Norris
Picture linkThe Octopus by Frank Norris is the story of the struggles of the wheat farmers in california against the railroad monopolies. -
Lincoln Steffens
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Ida Tarbell
Picture linkIn September of 1904 Ida Tarbell wrote the History of the Standard Oil Company, the story exposed John D. Rockefeller and other oil companies for their forms of trusts. (Trusts were large businesses that (in the absence of strong antitrust law in the 19th century) attempted to gain monopolies in various industries.)
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"How The Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis: Chapter 1." How The Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis: Chapter 1. 12 July 2012. Web. 25 Oct. 2015. -
Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair publish The Jungle showed what was happening in the meat packing industry, he showed the methods and the unsanitary processing of meat. [T]he meat... would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit." Quote from the jungle http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/jungle/quotes.html -
The Pure food and Drug Act
The picture linkThis act was passed by Roosevelt after reading Sinclair's book the jungle. This act was passed "for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes."
Carpenter, Daniel, and "Pure Food;Drug Act." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. "Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)." Encyclopedia.com. HighBeam Research, 2004. Web. 25 Oct. 2015. -
The Meat Inspection Act
Picture linkThis act was a strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers, it was passed because of Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle. -
Jane Addams
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Jane Addams in Twenty Years at Hull-House shows the abbuse, provety, and uncleanliness of 1890. The story is about the social experiment that social reformers Jane Addams and Ellen Gate Starr undertook. An example of the abbuse and provety is "...some offices unexpectedly uncovered ugly human traits...a little boy who, because he was dorn with a cleft palate, was most unwelcome even to his mother...he died..." -
Tirangle Shirtwaist factory
picture linkOn this day in history 145 workers died in a factory fire in New York City. The workers were locked in and the fire escape collapse. It is minted in How the other half lives that the fire escapes on almost all the buildings were not functional. -
The Clayton Antitrust Act
Picture linkHelped enforce the already passed sherman antitrust act, passed mainly because of Ida Tarbell's book The History of the Staread oil company.
