muckrakers
muckrakers were people who wrote for popular magazines about the injustices of the government, mainly focused on exposing crime and corruption, monopoly of standard oil, cattle, meat packing, patent medicines, child labor, working conditions, wages, agriculture, relegations of public muckraking led to public outcry and investigations. legislation was enacted to address the issues the writers identified. Nellie Bly the original muckraker published a book called ten days in the mad house trying to expose patient abuse, upton sinclair published a book about the conditions about meat packing, and ray stannard baker published book about conditions of coal mining.
Conservation- in 1887 there were 40 million acres set aside for national forest reserve, lands were overused. Roosevelt condemned that the worlds natural resouces are not replaceable. roosevelt set aside 1.5 million acres of water power sights and set aside 80 million acres of land that environmental people would explore.
Aiding the poor- social gospel movement-preached salvation though the service to the poor. made working conditions better such as many poor people had awful jobs, dangerous, unsanitary, and low paying. house settlements meant community centers in slum neighborhoods that provide assistance to immigrants and the poor. ran by mainly middle class people. provided language, culture, and social service classes, and benefited the poor but mainly immigrants.
i thougt it was neat how nellie bly, upton sinclair, and ray baker each wrote a book about things that were going on such as meat packing and how rats and other things would crawl all over it then the workers would put meat bread and most likely rats all together in the hopper.
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