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Muckrakers are those who bring up wrong doing to the attention of the public government. It was most known to be as journalists who wrote about the "corrupt" side of business, meaning dishonest and not trustworthy at all. As well as the public life in these big times magazines happening back in the early 20th century. The term, "//Muckrakers"// pertains to the book "Pilgrim Progress" by John Bunyan. It relates back to that because of how a character spends up most of his time using a rake to clean up the problems of the world that he does not raise his eyes to heaven which basically means to mind his own business and focus on what is really important. There were instances such as when a time came with a woman named, Ida M. Tarbell had written "The History of the Standard Oil Company". What it had done was expose what John D. Rockefeller had done with the company such as turning his oil business into an all-powerful monopoly. The writing was meant to to be put out in a negative and harmful way/tone. Also came in Lincoln Steffens. He was known to be the leading figure of this movement. He had published some things too about the business and government in many magazines including McClure's Magazine. These stories were then collected into 2 books which were "//The Shame of the Cities// and //The Struggle for Self-Government"//. In the Shame of the Cities he exposed vote fraud located in Philadelphia. Then came in Upton Sinclair, he was the writer of //The Jungle.// Upton revealed things about the terrible conditions that immigrant workers went through and the meatpacking industry which had a lot of people raising eyebrows. This article caused a federal investigation that resulted in passage of the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. In conclusion, these people expose the truth and what bad things that have been done in writing. __Citations:__ **Picture** - "Muckraker: Where Did the Term Come From?" //Reeds Mass Media//. 2 Dec. 2010. Web. 16 Nov. 2015." **Information** -  Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Print.
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