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What contributed the rise of the magazine?
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Population doubled between 1880 and 19900advances in printing and publishing lowered costs
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This age of reform became known as?
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Muckraking
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Coined by?
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Theodore Roosevelt; raking muck
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Who is widely acknowledged as the first muckracker?
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Lincoln steffens
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What did he cover?
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Began at the New York Evening Post covering wall streetten years later- 1902- switched to McClures
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What project did he undertake that made him a journalistic icon?
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Investigating the state of municipal government
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What was this article called?published when?
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"Tweed Days in St. Louis"october 1902
city aldermen had crafted a system of governance based on bribery and corruption |
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What happened as a result of this article?
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St. Louis Distric Attorney Joseph W. Folk gained public support to presecute dozensin 1904 he was elected governer of Missouri
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After the St. Lois article what did Steffens do?
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Moved to other cities- Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Philly, Chicago, NYCthen state- Missouri, Illinois, Rhode Island, New Jersey
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What was Steffen's series dubbed?
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Litterature of protest
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What was the most tangible legacy of Steffen's journalistic work?
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The shame of cities
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What did it do?
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Helped politicians better manage their governments
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What was the leading muckraking magazine?
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McClure
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He chose to tackle what?using whom?
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Standard oilserious minded women- looked like schoolmistress- Ida Tarbell
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Tarbell originally wrote for what?
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Chautauquan magazine
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