Question

What was the impact of muckraker journalist Ida Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company?

Answer 1

Ida Tarbell's book eventually led to the break up of standard oil

Answer 2

Ida Tarbell was an American professor, writer and journalist, considered one of the main "muckrakers" of the Progressive Era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and a pioneer of investigative journalism.

She is known for her research on John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company, published in series by McClure's Magazine from 1902 to 1904; her investigations exposed the unfair monopolistic practices practiced by the company until the Supreme Court of the United States decided to dissolve the monopoly.