The stakes are definitely much lower for today’s muckrakers, but also they bring things to light not a lot of us know. Back then it was quite obvious how much of the market the “captains of industry” owned, but people were basically staying quiet if they knew what was best for them. Here, schemes are much easier to hide behind mounds of fake news or blaming things on the media
Manifest destiny was a cause because the people who were moving to the midwest were moving there because they wanted a new start at life. Also there was gold there and that attracted them too. Hope this helps
Dickinson’s belief that the colonists should make every feasible effort at negotiation was reinforced by his doubts as to whether a harmonious American nation could ever be built on the foundation of opposition to British misrule. Remove the superintending authority of empire, Dickinson worried, and Americans would quickly fall into internecine conflicts of their own.
boycott all contact with British good
It flavored keeping a monopoly on new technology