Ida Tarbell: The History Of The Standard Oil Company

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Ida Tarbell was one of the most influential muckrakers, she was an american journalist. Muckrakers are one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders. Tarbell exposed the unfair practices of the Standard Oil Company, leading to a U.S. Supreme Court decision to break its monopoly. She was known as the women who cracked the oil trust. Ida wrote a book titled The History of the Standard Oil Company, exposing the oil company run by John D Rockefeller. She has made a huge impact on the oil companies and giving her opinions that changed the ways these ran.

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