Bellwork - Research Day!

Group Work Day :-)

Each person needs a text book. Please get into groups of 2-4 each.

Turn to page 326 – “The Muckrakers”

Inside your group, fill out the worksheet and place the names of the members of the group on the worksheet.

I am also giving each group four primary sources. Have each person choose one and highlight/circle three key passages (a sentence or two each) that get their attention or think is an important point the writer is trying to make.

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Muckrakers

US.16 Citing textual evidence as appropriate, explain the significant roles played by muckrakers and progressive idealists, including Robert La Follette, Theodore Roosevelt, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair. (C, E, P)

Our Objectives Today

Students understand how Muckrakers impacted people's lives during the early 20th century and students' lives today.

Examine examples of historical primary sources of the Progressive Era.

Compare the way each writer uses detail to make a point.

MuckrakersThe term "muckraker" was taken from the fictional character

in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, a man who was consigned to rake muck endlessly, never lifting his eyes from his drudgery.

People in the United States had long been displeased with the unsafe conditions, political corruption and social injustice of the industrial age, but it was not until the late 19th century that the proliferation of cheap newspapers and magazines galvanized widespread opposition. Writers directed their criticisms against the trusts (oil, beef and tobacco), prison conditions, exploitation of natural resources, the tax system, the insurance industry, pension practices and food processing, among others.

Ida Tarbell (1857-1944)

Remember, she wrote an expose on Standard Oil?

She saw her dad ruined

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-woman-who-took-on-the-tycoon-651396/?no-ist

Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936)

“The Shame of the Cities”

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~am482_04/graffeo/shame/

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

“The Jungle”

The Jungle – How Bad was It?

Let's read some excerpts from the book.

“... I hit their stomach.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxe9nosWawM

1906 Food and Drug Act

http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/Origin/ucm054819.htm

Primary Source Time

Time to do some more reading...

Robert La Follette (1855-1925)

'Fighting Bob'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5plfw9dV24

La Follette fought for Change

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Painting_32_00010.htm

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

'Teddy'

http://www.biography.com/people/theodore-roosevelt-9463424

Roosevelt coined 'Muckraker'

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tr-know/

Roosevelt was first 'Trustbuster'

TR was against corruption

He took on Standard Oil

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PuckCartoon-TeddyRoosevelt-05-23-1906.jpg

Roosevelt accomplish a lot!

http://us-presidents.findthebest.com/q/16/9699/What-were-President-Theodore-Roosevelt-s-accomplishments

Muckrakers

US.16 Citing textual evidence as appropriate, explain the significant roles played by muckrakers and progressive idealists, including Robert La Follette, Theodore Roosevelt, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair. (C, E, P)

Our Objectives Today

Students understand how Muckrakers impacted people's lives during the early 20th century and students' lives today.

Examine examples of historical primary sources of the Progressive Era.

Compare the way each writer uses detail to make a point.

Question Time....

How did muckrakers change society in the first decade of the 20th century? How do you know? Cite Evidence…

How did Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" change the meat packing industry?

What motivated the muckrakers of this era?

What mechanisms did muckrakers use to try to get their point across to their readers?

More Questions :-)

How extensive was corruption in the second half of the 19th Century?

Why did individuals seem to get lost in the expansion of our country? Our government? Business?

Who were the muckrakers?

Why was their work so valuable?