THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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advertise the economic benefits of industrialization.
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describe and illustrate the problems within American society.
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encourage European immigration through advertising in European newspapers.
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attract rural residents to move into the urban centers.
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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: -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: -Influential muckrakers created public awareness of corruption, social injustices and abuses of power. Muckrakers’ sensational accounts resulted in public outcry and served as a catalyst for Progressive Era social, economic and political reforms.
Detailed explanation-5: -Muckrakers were very effective in helping reform American society. Journalists and authors like Upton Sinclair and Ida B. Wells revealed hard truths about corruption, violence, and injustice in the United States, which a rapidly more literate American populace met with concern and passion.