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Ida Tarbell
She wrote an artical tiled " History Of The Standard Oil Company."
Ida was angry about John D. Rockefeller's buying up all independent oil companies.she was angry because her father's company went bankrupt. -
the muckracking press
Muckrackers are known as investigative journalist.
They dig up dirt of society.Journalists Lincoln Steffens and Claude Wetmore exposed a corrupt politcal machine in St.Louis -
progressive issues
70 percent of all american's worked 54 houres a week.
A quarter of its work force injured or killed on a job.
industrial workers faced dangerous and long houres. -
Labor Laws
Women were penalized for being too efficient at piecework because they made too much money. Many children did not attend school because they needed to work to help support the family.Reformer Florence Kelley worked to pass laws that protected children.