RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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dissatisfied workers who went on strike
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Northerners who went South following the Civil War
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investigative journalists who exposed societal problems
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women who supported the Prohibition movement
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Detailed explanation-1: -Muckrakers were journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government. The work of muckrakers influenced the passage of key legislation that strengthened protections for workers and consumers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Where does the term muckraker come from? The name muckraker was pejorative when used by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech on April 14, 1906; he borrowed a passage from John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress that referred to “the Man with the Muckrake…
Detailed explanation-3: -Theodore Roosevelt coined the term “muckraker” during a speech in 1906. He compared investigative reporters to the narrow-minded figure in John Bunyan’s 17th-century religious fable, “The Pilgrim’s Progress": the “man that could look no way but downwards, with a muckrake in his hand."