The journey to the promise land
These journalists were called muckrakers. They basically "raked the muck" out of society to make it a better place. They uncovered unsafe working conditions and unjust business practices and wrote about them to try to expose corruption.
Correct answer is "a. True".
Urban police systems began to emerge throughout Europe and especially in France over the preceding centuries, it was in the early 1800s however that they took their modern conception and were adopted in the United Kingdom, which up to then had been resilient to an idea that it saw as an oppressive foreign import. The change in perception was a consequence of severe unrest and lawlessness in the cities, as documented in the classical Charles Dickens book A Tale of Two Cities. This process culminated with the passage of the Metropolitan Police act of 1829, which produced the world's first modern and professional police force.
