Ida B. Tarbell was an essential investigative journalist.
Besides being a journalist, Ida B. Tarbell was an American writer and a lecturer. She lived during the late 19th century and also during the oil boom. Furthermore, <u>she was one of the pioneers of investigative journalism and she mainly spent her life investigating about the oil industry</u> and advocating for world peace. One of her most famous works is <em>The History of the Standard Oil Company,</em> where she confrontates and exposes John Rockefeller's practices.
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The lasting effect of religious missionaries in Africa is that they spread Christianity. They established hospitals, clinics and offered modern medicine. They introduced European system of management and styles of dress. The Missionaries opened schools. Also training colleges too. They paved the way for the improvement of agriculture through establishing farms where new crops and better methods of farming and equipment were introduced. Furthermore, the missionaries fought slave trade. They also destroyed local industries like craft industries which were replaced with European products. Moreover, some African religions were lost to Christianity.
<span>Union membership increased as workers sought better pay and conditions.
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