2+Group+3+Progressives+Muckrakers


 * Issues Muckrakers tryed to reform**

The muckrakers tried to help resolve many issues that posed a problem to the people. They were often novelists and journalists who wrote about how unfair things in politics could be. They did this in an attempt to expose the abusiveness of big business and corruption in politics. They often would focus on then problems of society and vigirously writing about them, tearing them apart, and showing them to the people. Some worked on muncipal corruption, others, wrote about the oil companies and the unfairness that occured within those companies. And when they started writing exposés on patent-medicine fraud, meat proccessing, and racial violence, this took muckrakers to a peak. This forced many new laws to be passed to ammend these mistakes and make life more enjoyable for the masses.


 * Issues Muckrakers were critisized for not trying to reform**

Muckrakers, while writing all their stories, did however neglet a few issues which some felt needed more attention then they got, earning the mukraker many critisisms. They would also often only focus only on the evils of society, but would forget to mention the fact that America still had great potential to become some place very great.