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1900 Muckraker (Upton Sinclair)
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[Upton Sinclair popular author of the 20th century]

The early 1900's was the beginning of not only a political movement, but health and sanitation for America. Believe it or not this movement was a revolution in itself. It turned America's old habits all the way around building new laws and a foundation for itself.This was a time when children worked a normal 9 to 5 job, people lived in slums, and sanitation just was not a concern to those trying to make a living. But, to some out there sanitation was a problem and they were determined to fix it.

The word muckraker is said to have originated from the great president Theodore Roosevelt. He coined this word during a speech in 1906 while comparing them to "The Man with the Muckrake" in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. In this same year, Upton Sinclair came out with his famous book "The Jungle." It focused on the conditions of filth in the meat packing industry. It also talked about the wages people were making and how the political parties were doing nothing to help.


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It took a few tries for him to get the book published, but once it was it immediately became a best-seller. Although his original intent was to open peoples eyes to the low wages and working conditions, food safety became the main focus of others. In his book, Sinclair talked about the dissapearance of workers and how many of them that fell into rendering vats were left and sold as lard. After this book came out, many inspection and regulation laws were made. This made food and safety so much better. In the end, Sinclair did not reach his goal on wages, but he did open Americans eyes to the filth and danger of meats and factories.

[Sinclairs published book]


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1910 Yellow Journalism Yellow journalism is a type of journalism that instead of repoting all news it just reports scandals and other types of news that seem appealing. It doesn't always cover the most legitimate topics. Yellow journalists display their stories with lots of pictures and big bold headlines. These tactics make the newspaper/magazine seem less boring and and more appealing then other standard newspapers, and most cases sell more.

The origins of yellow jouranilsm began in 1895 in New York when two newspapers the __New York World__ (Joseph Pulitzer) and __The New York Journal__ (William Randolph Hearst) began competing for circulation, and each newspaper started adding stuff to gain popularity. The term Yellow Journalism came from the comic strip that were included in these types of papers called Yellow Boy,what happend was the ink from the comic strip spread and caused all the pages to be tinted yellow thus coining the phrase Yellow Journalism.



John Muir John Muir was born on April 21, 1838 and was a Scottish-born American. He was a naturalist, author, and advocate of conservation of the wilderness. He walked a thousand miles, from Indiana to Florida, and then wrote a book about his adventures called, "A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf." He planned to continue on to South America, but was stricken with malaria and went to California instead. His books telling about his adventures in the wildlife have been read by millions and are still popular today. His writings and philosophy influenced the formation of the modern enviromental movement. His activism helped save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park, and other wilderness areas. He founded the Sierra Club, which is now one of the most important conservations in the U.S.
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Yosemite Valley was his inspiration. He said that "No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite," and "Yosemite is the grandest of all special temples of Nature."


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John Muir appears on the California quarter.

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