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Muckrakers, Reformers, Progress

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John Spargowrote 'Bitter Cry of Children'
Ida Tarbellwrote 'History of Standard Oil Company'
The Grangeunion of farmers
Jane Addamsfounder of Hull House
Lincoln Steffenswrote 'Shame of the Cities'
Carry Nationfought for temperance with bible & ax
Jacob Riiswrote 'How the other half lives'
William Jennings BryanCross of Gold Speech
William McKinleywon election of 1896
Susan B. Anthonyfought for women's suffrage
Upton Sinclairwrote 'The Jungle'
Free & unlimited coinage of silverplatform of 1896 Democratic Party
American Federation of Laborlabor union founded by Samuel Gompers
suffrageright to vote
Hull Househelped immigrants & poor living in slums
temperance movementfight to ban sale & distribution of alcohol
'History of Standard Oil Company'exposed Rockefellar corruption
'Bitter Cry of Children'exposed young boys working in coal mines
'Shame of the Cities'exposed government and voting corruption
'How the other half Lives'exposed tenement conditions
'The Jungle'exposed horrible meatpacking conditions
looked out for the farmersPopulist Party
reasons for low wagesdepression, immigrants, competetive market, power of employers
decline of Knights of Laborloss of RR strike, Haymarket riot, mismanagement, AFL
American Federation of Laborwanted shorter hours, higher wages, child labor laws, better conditions
barbed wireinvented by Joseph Glidden
oil drilling methodsinvented by Edwin Drake
air brakes on trainsinvented by George Westinghouse
Telegraphinvented by Samuel Morse
'What hath God wrought?'first morse code message
telephoneinvented by Alexander Grahamn Bell
Bessemer processmade it possible to produce large amounts of steel
vacuum cleanerJames Murray Spangler


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