THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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Andrew Johnson
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Franklin D Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Believed to have been coined following a 1906 speech by United States President Theodore Roosevelt, in which he likened the investigative journalist to ‘the Man with the Muck-rake’, a character in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress.
Detailed explanation-2: -Even President Roosevelt, who coined the derisive term “muckraker, ” was propelled to act. Within months, Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to curb these sickening abuses.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term muckraking was coined by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, describing the crusading journalists who wrote stories in late nineteenth-century publications.
Detailed explanation-4: -President Theodore Roosevelt was a leader of the Progressive movement, and he championed his “Square Deal” domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs.