The Muckrakers were a group of journalists and writers that provided an important spark and ignited the Progressive movement. They were interested in exposing the problems in American society and urged the public to identify solutions.
They helped initiate the Progressive Era by analyzing if those bad conditions were linked to corrupt politics, poor working conditions in factories, bad living conditions of the working class and others.
They sparkled this analysis into people who read the newspapers and that wanted to change for their lives and because of that, an agenda was created.
The answer would be B !!!!
It helped to spread Enlightenment ideas.
Answer:
D
Explanation:
Things like literacy tests, at a time when many Black Americans didn't receive an education, were a common practice to make sure that newly freed slaves still couldn't vote. another common thing was a fee to vote, which was usually not worth paying for the generally very poor Black American community