The term muckrakers was used to refer to reformist American journalists who attacked political leaders and instutions for their corrupt practices during the Progressive Era. Most of these journalists were popular due to their publications in popular magazines.
<u>Lincoln Steffens and Claude Wetmore wrote an article about St Louis in 1902 in McClure's Magazine. </u>
They wrote about how paradoxical was that people constinously showed pride in St Louis, and how this contrasted with the awful image of the city. They pointed out how people in St. Louis claimed to have very wealthy inhabitants, together with the best banks, industries, etc., but how at first sight it was possible to observe uncared-for streets, dirty alleys, a filthy hospital, the unfinished construction repairs in the town hall, etc.
<span>Russians comprised a third of Brazil's European immigrant population</span>
Most slaves were Muslims.
This is never mentioned in any U.S. slaves history, yet it's true.
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Building on Greek ideas, Roman thinkers developed the concept of natural law. Remember natural law was that the idea that law governed how the world operated. With Roman and Greek ideas as guidelines the Enlightenment thinkers began to study the world in a new way. They applied these beliefs to government and society.
