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Lincoln Steffens was known for exposing corruption in city government. Ida Tarbell was the person that exposed Rockefeller Standard Oil.
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JACOB RIIS - photographer, exposed bad working and living conditions. IDA TARBELL - journalist, exposed the corruption of the Standard Oil Company. UPTON SINCLAIR - author, exposed the meat packing industry. LINCOLN STEFFENS - journalist, exposed political and government corruption. ^.~
Ida Tarbell wrote about the Standard Oil Company in her book, "The History of the Standard Oil Company," which exposed the company's business practices and monopolistic tendencies, contributing to the public outcry that led to the breakup of the company.
the corruption of John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company
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She exposed the workings of the Standard Oil Company.
Ida Tarbell was the journalist who exposed Standard Oil as a monopoly.
The woman that wrote an article and a book exposing the evils of the Standard Oil Company is Ida Tarbell. Tarbell was a teacher and journalist who was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania on November 5, 1857. The book is called, The History of the Standard Oil Company, and it was published in 1904.
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Standard Oil Company. Standard Oil Company.
Ida Tarbell was a muckraker who went into the standard oil company and exposed the monopolies that John D. Rockefeller had illegally created