Muckraker

An article, “The Progressive Era to the New Era,” displays that “progressives saw the urban poor as objects of social concerns.” Jacob Riis, a muckraker wrote an article, “How the Other Half Lives” to convey awareness about the atrocious conditions immigrants were living under. He created the flashbulb to capture pictures of immigrants living in lodging houses. Josiah Strong, an American protestant…

Underlined political fight: I meant women helped gain some additional reforms in politics but listing it as fight gives wrong sense to the reader. No to political party: I misinterpreted the National Women’s Party as political party. It was party formed for women that helped them raise their voice in society. No evidence, no sources + thesis mid 19th century economic change not on question: I need to make sure that I stay on topic because I discussed little bit of economic which wasn't the…

In my opinion, progressivisim had the most effect on the United States because progressivies ended corruption in government, businesses, and helped the economy gradually get better. Muckrakers like Lincoln Steffens exposed aspects of american by writing about poverty, and corruption in local governments. The city manager plan reduced the corruption in cities by dividing the city into districts which brought decision making to a whole…

The American Dream is interpreted differently by everyone, but falls along the lines of the pursuit of opportunity and satisfaction of needs and wants. In movies and television shows individuals venture out into New York City with hope of finding this opportunity. Unfortunately, media only portrays only one side of the American Dream, this is the side of success and achievement. In contrast, there is a group of individuals who are not successful and unable to reach the American Dream, they make…

reformers grew weary of the terrible conditions in housing, jobs, government, and corporations. These reformers changed throughout the decades, most important of such reformers were the Progressives. Utilizing the power of journalism such as the Muckrakers, voting, progressive presidents, protests, and media, the strengthening their cause and creating true progress. Throughout the progressive movement, the reformers advocated for political, industrial, and social reforms, however, they were met…

The Progressives and federal government were known for bringing major changes to society during the early 20th century through reforms. Some reforms that brought forth change were the influence of muckrakers, who wrote exposes to help bring change. The Progressives and the federal government were mostly successful when it came to bringing reforms politically, socially, and economically. Politically, the Progressives and the federal government were successful bringing changes through certain…

White-collar crime refers to a nonviolent crime that is financially motivated and committed by any business or government official to obtain profits for personal advantage. (Buell, 2014). White-collar crimes ranges from fraud, Ponzi schemes, forgery and insider trading, a substantial amount of all white collar crimes offender’s live by privilege and power (Evertsson, 2013). Although, numerous amounts of white-collar crimes and offenders are caught by law enforcement, a substantial amount of…

Another upstart for this clean food movement was the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair who was a Progressive/Muckraker and his exact words about the popularity of the book and the social uproar it caused was “I aimed for the Publics heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach”. Upton Sinclair’s book is a deeply graphic depiction into the Chicago meat packing industry…

The top three reform movements from the period between 1880-1990 based on impact and social significance to society would be 1) Progressivism, 2) Civil Rights, and 3) Women’s suffrage. Those three reform movements were selected are because each of them created conditions of conflict that affected the results of other movements and in many respects still influence Americans today. The following provides insight into why those three reform movements had the most importance to the U.S. The…

Muckrakers were known as journalist that would expose the corruption within businesses and politics. These journalist were able to expose corruption using different types of information. For instance, documents 2,5, and 6 used information to expose business corruption. Documents 1 and 4 used information to expose the corruption of city living conditions. Lastly, document 3 used information in order to expose political corruption. The authors of documents 2, 5, and 6 were able to expose…