USA HISTORY

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: -The muckrakers played a highly visible role during the Progressive Era. Muckraking magazines-notably McClure’s of the publisher S. S. McClure-took on corporate monopolies and political machines, while trying to raise public awareness and anger at urban poverty, unsafe working conditions, prostitution, and child labor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Overview. Muckrakers were investigative journalists during the Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) who shone a light on corrupt business and government leaders as well as major social problems like racism. Ida B. Wells wrote graphically about the horrors of lynching in the South.

Detailed explanation-4: -Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Jungle, a book about meat-packing factories in Chicago. Jacob Riis, who took photographs of poor people’s living conditions in New York City. Ida Tarbell, who wrote books about John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil.