Essays Tagged: "Ida Tarbell"
Gates vs. Rockefeller (an epic duel between two huge business moguls)
d some of the US laws. The trust led to the Sherman Anti-trust laws, which made monopolies illegal. Ida Tarbell was one of Rockefeller's biggest critics, she gad a grudge against him because she felt ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Progressive Era and Gilded Age
irt or muck of the monopolies and the harsh practices of trusts, such muckrakers as Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and Lincoln Steffens. Presidential leadership was first put into practice by Teddy Roos ... . He broke up over 60 trusts with the Sherman Act, believing that small business should not be intimidated by big business. Although Taft was not considered as strong a President as Teddy, because of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
War and Empire.
gazine to voice their ideas and beliefs for reform. Well known muckrakers were Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell. Lincoln Steffens exposed corruption in government and city politics.In Wisconsin, refor ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Ida Tarbell and her contributions to yellow journalism.
Ida Tarbell helped to revolutionize the field of journalism by pioneering what is known today as inv ... e as the watchdogs and consciences of our political, economic, and social lives. Almost ironically, Ida Tarbell herself was not an activist for women's issues or women's rights. However, she emerged a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Muckraker
xpose the abuses of business and the corruption in politics. Two of the most famous muckrakers were Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair on the 20th century. Michael Moore is also a muckraker who has helped ... al question is whether it really made a difference on an American society after watching that movie.Ida Tarbell, Journalist who was born on November 5, 1857. She was originally from Pennsylvania; she ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Progressive Movement
e connections between corrupt politicians and urban businessmen. Another established journalist was Ida Tarbell. Tarbell had grown up in western Pennsylvania, close to the first oil well in the United ... workers began to revolt on their own, they began to take unauthorized breaks and stayed home on holidays. Many of the workers stated that "We don't want to work as fast as we are able to, we want to ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Lincoln Steffens
oss the nation. Included in this article were voter fraud and bribery such that would make the "Florida Crisis" in the 2000 Presidential election appear as no more that a mere case of teenagers ... ually done at this time by the people. The popularity of McClure's magazine, after other exposes by Ida M. Tarbell, David Phillips, and others, gained an enormous amount of popularity.Changes in gover ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Muckraking newspapers and maga
writers who had considerable influence due to their investigative journalism were Lincoln Steffens, Ida M. Tarbell, and Ray Stannard Baker. These three writers did what many consider the most influent ... is in return helped to fuel the political reforms that started to be implemented in the early 1900s.Ida M. Tarbell was another journalist working for McClure?s at the same time a Steffens. There was a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Did the progressive era go far enough? It hard to
ogressive era were the Muckrakers. Muckrakers were journalists in the 1900?s. Some of them include, Ida Tarbell she reveled the standard oil scandal that Rockefeller?s oil company was ?swallowing up? ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather
uthor (Downs 54). From 1906-1912 Cather was the managing editor of McClure's Magazine. According to Ida Tarbell, Cather didn't like the magazine's "'muckraking' and crusading methods" and eventually q ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
John D. Rockefeller
print a series of attacks upon corruption in industry and politics. To their authors -- among whom Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first, and indeed one of the most painstaking and responsible -- Roose ... ons, as the last four selections illustrate. All of these represent a single controversy over the alidation of certain facts about Rockefeller and Standard Oil, and over the proper evaluation to be ma ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science