What was muckraking? How did it affect American politics?

Question

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Answer 1

A muckraker is like a whistle blower. He or she will report by newspaper, books and government to tell people about the flaws and dangers of what people were eating, drinking or buying were dangerous. One of the most famous muckraker was the book THE JUNGLE. The book talked about the health risks of the meat packing factories. The book talks about borax poured into rotting meat to be sold. Not clean, plus people leaving the factories as Ground Beef.

Answer 2

A muckraker is an American English term for one who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that violate widely held values, such as political corruption, corporate crime, child labor, conditions in slums and prisons, unsanitary conditions in food processing plants (such as meat), fraudulent claims by manufacturers of patent medicines, labor racketeering, and similar topics. In British English however the term is applied to sensationalist scandal-mongering journalist, not driven by any social principles.

The term muckraker is most usually associated in America with a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics in the Progressive Era from the 1890s to the 1920s. It also applies to post 1960 journalists who follow in the tradition of those from that period. See History of American newspapers for Muckrakers in the daily press.

Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker

Answer 3

muckraking wad a writer exposing a flaw or coruption. they exposed it to the public and the politicians, pressured by the public would then make a change, like the Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 4

It was when progressive newspaper writers went into sweat shops and tenants for immigrants and disenfranchised workers to show how terrible a life it was. This put pressure on politicians to change things as more people were becoming aware of the atrocities happening in these places.

Answer 5

What Was Muckraking

Answer 6

muck, as in mud, lies at the bottom of a river, or pond. by raking it up, you muddy the waters, clouding the issues, get it?

Answer 7

wikipedia rules!