San Francisco, California, United States
Q. What issues did Frank Norris expose?
In August 1902, Everybody’s Magazine published an article by Norris, A Deal in Wheat, exposing corrupt business dealings in agriculture.
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- Q. What issues did Frank Norris expose?
- Q. When did Frank Norris die?
- Q. What did Frank Norris expose in the octopus?
- Q. What did Frank Norris do as a muckraker?
- Q. What did Lincoln Steffens expose?
- Q. What did Stannard Baker expose?
- Q. Who said I have seen the future and it works?
- Q. What problem did muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens expose in his articles for McClure’s Magazine Group of answer choices?
- Q. Who was the most influential muckraker?
- Q. Why did Lincoln Steffens become a muckraker?
- Q. What did Lincoln Steffens specifically investigate and expose Americans?
- Q. What did Lincoln Steffens write about quizlet?
- Q. Was Jacob Riis a muckraker?
- Q. What did Jacob Riis take pictures of?
- Q. Was Jacob Riis successful?
- Q. What did muckraker Jacob Riis expose?
- Q. Why did Riis believe that cities like New York became centers for poverty?
Q. When did Frank Norris die?
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Q. What did Frank Norris expose in the octopus?
The Octopus examines the struggle of California wheat farmers in the San Joaquin valley against the powerful Pacific and Southwestern Railroad monopoly. Norris employed the technique of literary naturalism in the novel to dramatize the issues of environmental determinism and social justice.
Q. What did Frank Norris do as a muckraker?
In 1901 writer Frank Norris published The Octopus. It described greed and corruption in the railroad industry. His work suggested that rampant greed and materialism deformed a person’s character. Whereas hard work and struggle was good for character and the soul, luxury and money corrupt people.
Q. What did Lincoln Steffens expose?
He specialized in investigating government and political corruption, and two collections of his articles were published as The Shame of the Cities (1904) and The Struggle for Self-Government (1906). He also wrote The Traitor State (1905), which criticized New Jersey for patronizing incorporation.
Q. What did Stannard Baker expose?
In 1908 after the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot got him involved, Baker published the book Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy, becoming the first prominent journalist to examine America’s racial divide; it was extremely successful.
Q. Who said I have seen the future and it works?
Lincoln Steffens
Q. What problem did muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens expose in his articles for McClure’s Magazine Group of answer choices?
Steffens Takes on Corruption The first to strike was Lincoln Steffens. In 1902, he published an article in McClure’s magazine called “Tweed Days in St. Louis.” Steffens exposed how city officials worked in league with big business to maintain power while corrupting the public treasury.
Q. Who was the most influential muckraker?
Answer: The answer is John Spargo. Explanation: John Spargo was one of several muckrakers during that era. He is considered to be one of the more influential journalists because of the reporting and writing on child labor in coal mines.
Q. Why did Lincoln Steffens become a muckraker?
At a time when many politicians were corrupt and were practising nepotism, the journalists during the Progressive Era exposed many political issues surrounding the government and society. Fascinated by the web of corruption in the government, Steffens was already an active and known muckraking journalist.
Q. What did Lincoln Steffens specifically investigate and expose Americans?
During nine years of New York City newspaper work ending in 1901, Steffens discovered abundant evidence of the corruption of politicians by businessmen seeking special privileges. With Ida Tarbell and others Steffens cofounded The American Magazine in 1906. Many nationwide lecture tours won Steffens recognition.
Q. What did Lincoln Steffens write about quizlet?
Written by Lincoln Steffens, this piece was designed to make Americans feel outraged and shamed by showing example of corrupt government throughout urban America. He wrote the book “Following the Colored Line” on 1906 causing him to become the first prominent journalist to examine America’s social divide.
Q. Was Jacob Riis a muckraker?
Jacob August Riis (/riːs/; May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, “muckraking” journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century.
Q. What did Jacob Riis take pictures of?
By the late 1880s, Riis had begun photographing the interiors and exteriors of New York slums with a flash lamp. Those photos are early examples of flashbulb photography. Riis used the images to dramatize his lectures and books.
Q. Was Jacob Riis successful?
It was because of men like Jacob Riis that this is so. He was also successful in getting playgrounds for children. And he helped establish centers for education and fun for older people. Theodore Roosevelt, who later became president of the United States, called Riis the most useful citizen in New York City.
Q. What did muckraker Jacob Riis expose?
Jacob Riis did his best to expose the brash living conditions of the poor in the New York slums but the resulting changes that were made may have done more to rearrange the face of the problem than to solve it.
Q. Why did Riis believe that cities like New York became centers for poverty?
Riis believes that the city attracts people to live. At this time most of the people don’t have much money so cheap lodging houses bring them in. Slums were full poor individuals, while Chinatown was very clean and had a very wide and diverse space for individuals to socialize and to immigrate and live in.
