Answer:
Trade
Explanation:
Trade of resources that can't be farmed/products/gathered/found in Europe/home countries and needed to imported.
For example: Tobacco, cotton, sugar
The Muckrakers were a group of journalists, who would 'rake up the muck' of the slums of america, or other areas, and try to expose it. An example of a muckraker is "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair Jr, where the meat packaging industry is revealed to be extremely unsanitary and lurid.
