WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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to end racial discrimination in the workplace
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to force individual states to regulate monopolies
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to pass legislation to correct harmful business practices
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to grant citizenship to people who had entered the country illegally
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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: -The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who claimed to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publications.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Upton Sinclair was a famous novelist and social crusader from California, who pioneered the kind of journalism known as “muckraking.” His best-known novel was “The Jungle” which was an expose of the appalling and unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.