Progressives,Muckrakers+(2-5)

Muckrakers- The Muckrakers were journalists who unlike many other writers during their time stood up for the horrible working conditions in factories and mines and the living conditions in insane asylums. They were also passionate about stopping horrible working conditions for children. But in their stories they often over exaggerate, but if you want people to really stop and see what’s happening that is what might need to be done. A lot of the working conditions that they tried to reform were horrible working conditions for children and other adult workers, crimes that companies were committing on their workers and being able to get away with, and they exposed a lot of the dirty little secrets of the big business leaders. The Muckrakers were very passionate about their work and they did achieve many victories in stopping the bad of the big business workers who thought they could just get away with a lot of bad things scotch free.