Era of the Muckrakers 2
Era of the Muckrakers 2
By the 20th century, the economy had gotten a good deal stronger and social issues of the past decades had cooled a bit, so Americans had time to reflect on society’s ills and the Era of the Muckrakers began. Publications everywhere were flooded with social commentaries, which stirred the public to call for changes. The demand for change led to the birth of the Progressive Movement in American politics.
Muckrakers saw corruption everywhere, from industry to politics to society, but their investigations always seemed to lead to the same conclusion—that economic power was concentrated into the hands of too few, that this power had corrupted, and that corruption had spread.