Absolute rulers have no checks on their power.
As in the name they have absolute power and would be considered a dictator.
They didn't support them because they wanted to end slavery and their reforms to improve conditions for native americans.
Ida Tarbell wrote an investigative report for McClure's<span> (magazine) on Standard Oil's business practices (John. D. Rockefeller). Ida Tarbell was an author and journalist. She was a famous "Muckracker". </span>
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin is Harriet Beecher Stowe.