U.s. History Chapter 9

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Progressivism

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Reform movement of the early 1900s concerned with curing problems of urbanization and industrialization

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McClure's Magazine

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It was a national magazine that published stories exploring corruption in politics and business as well as social problems such as slums and child labor.

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Muckrakers

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They were investigative journalists that racked up and exposed the much, or filth, of society.

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Lincoln Steffens

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was a journalist who marked the real beginning of style of journalism which exposed the corrupt political machine in St. Louis comparing it to Boss Tweed's control of New York City.

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Ida Tarbell

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was a writer who wrote the "History of the Standard Oil Company"

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Ray Stannard Baker

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He was a writer who toured the nation examining the plight of African American

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Theodore Dreiser

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He was a writer who wrote Sister Carrie and The Financier, he depicted workers brutalized by greedy business owners

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Edith Wharton

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In the house of mirth,she wrote about how the closedmindedness of elite society leads a good-hearted heroine to social isolation and despair.

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Herbert Croly

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The Promise of American Life was written by the political theorist who argued that the government should use its regulatory and taxation powers to promote the welfare of all its citizens.