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: -Upton Sinclair investigated and exposed horrid conditions at meatpacking plants in his book, The Jungle. This helped lead to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.

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: -A muckraker was any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing. The muckrakers provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States.