1. 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.

2. Today's Agenda Bellwork – RESEARCH DAY! Announcements Questions Bellwork Review Lecture

3. 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)

4. Our Objectives Today Students understand how Muckrakers impacted people's lives during the early 20 th 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.

5. Muckrakers The 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.

6. Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) Remember, she wrote an expose on Standard Oil?

7. She saw her dad ruined http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the- woman-who-took-on-the-tycoon- 651396/?no-ist

8. Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936)

9. “The Shame of the Cities” http://xroads.virginia.edu/~am482_04/graffeo/ shame/

11. Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

12. “The Jungle”

13. The Jungle – How Bad was It? Let's read some excerpts from the book.

14. “... I hit their stomach.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxe9nosW awM

15. 1906 Food and Drug Act http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/His tory/Origin/ucm054819.htm

16. Primary Source Time Time to do some more reading...

17. Robert La Follette (1855-1925)

18. 'Fighting Bob' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5plfw9dV 24

19. La Follette fought for Change http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifac t/Painting_32_00010.htm

20. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

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

22. Roosevelt coined 'Muckraker' http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience /features/general-article/tr-know/

23. Roosevelt was first 'Trustbuster'

24. TR was against corruption

25. He took on Standard Oil http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puck Cartoon-TeddyRoosevelt-05-23-1906.jpg

26. Roosevelt accomplish a lot! http://us- presidents.findthebest.com/q/16/9699/What -were-President-Theodore-Roosevelt-s- accomplishments

27. 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)

28. Our Objectives Today Students understand how Muckrakers impacted people's lives during the early 20 th 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.

29. Question Time.... How did muckrakers change society in the first decade of the 20 th 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?

30. More Questions :-) How extensive was corruption in the second half of the 19 th 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?