THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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efforts to increase public education in the South
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the struggle for women’s rights
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reform in the area of factory working conditions
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elimination of segregation in the South
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Detailed explanation-1: -The work of muckrakers influenced the passage of key legislation that strengthened protections for workers and consumers. Some of the most famous muckrakers were women, including Ida Tarbell and Ida B. Wells.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Perhaps no muckraker caused as great a stir as Upton Sinclair. An avowed Socialist, Sinclair hoped to illustrate the horrible effects of capitalism on workers in the Chicago meatpacking industry.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Muckrakers gave detailed and accurate of political economic corruption and other hardships of large business in the industrializing United States.