Progressive+Muckrakers+(1-1)

Progressive Muckrakers - Muckrakers found out information about issues in slums and prisons, factories, insane asylums (as they were called at the time), sweatshops, mines, child labor and unsanitary conditions in food processing plants. Muckrakers often wrote about impoverished people and took aim at the established institutions of society, sometimes in a sensationalist and tabloid manner. Some people didn't necessarily like them because they wrote a lot of bad things, but don't get me wrong they wrote some good things too. Muckrakers were often accused of being socialists or communists. In the early 1900s, muckrakers shed light on such issues by writing books and articles for popular magazines and newspapers such as Cosmopolitan, The Independent, and McClure's. Although the act of muckraking might appear to have a negative sound to it, muckrakers have often got the public by uncovering crime, corruption, waste, fraud and abuse in both the public and private areas. Group 1