Essay
The Jungle and the Progressive Era
The publication of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle produced an immediate and powerful effect on Americans and on federal...
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Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell (1857–1944) was an investigative journalist who, in The History of the Standard Oil Company, a 1904 exposé published in McClure’s Magazine, brought to light the questionable legal maneuverings and business practices of the Standard Oil Company.
Teaching Resource
The Rise of the City
Reading 1
Today, what is a tenement? "It is generally a brick building from four to six stories high on the street, frequently with a store on the first floor which, when used for the sale of liquor, has a side opening for the benefit of the inmates and to evade the Sunday law; four families occupy each floor, and a set of rooms consists of one or two dark closets, used as bedrooms, with a living room twelve feet by ten. The staircase is too often a dark well in the center of the house, and no direct through...
Teaching Resource
The Jungle
Overview
The United States was transformed in the last decades of the nineteenth century by the industrial revolution. The rapid growth of cities, increase in immigration, expansion of a struggling working class, and concentration of the nation’s wealth in the hands of a few “robber barrons” all demonstrated that the nation’s governing institutions were not prepared to cope with the challenges of that revolution.
The government’s role in the economy in the nineteenth century is best characterized as one of removing...