Progressive+Muckrakers+(2-1)

The muckrakers tried to help the country with the problems of abuse that they reported in the articles that they wrote. They were very influential in the passing of laws to help rebuild and to keep abuse from happening. Many people used different ways of trying to report these things. Thomas Nast used political cartoons to expose the abuses of NYC and Tammany Hall while Jacob Riis exposed the urban poor by writing a book called "How The Other Half Lives."

One of the things that the progressives are criticized for is their inability to deal with equalling minority rights. Another thing in modern eyes that they are criticized for not being able to deal with was prohibition, the great depression, and the first new deal provided by Franklin Roosevelt.

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