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.
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The acquiring of the territories gave the United States justification to send out immigrants into those territories and settle the land along the trails created by traders and trappers beforehand. These immigrants and other workers then set up the Transcontinental Railroad to facilitate trade and transport back and forth from the west coast to the east.
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War with Mexico to acquire Texas and other areas of the southwest and the u.s colonization of Puerto Rico and the Philippines
"d.) the shakers" Did not believe in procreation.
The most detrimental aspect of redrawing of territorial boundaries in Africa by Europeans was that they completely neglected the tribal boundaries that had been in place for centuries, meaning that rival tribes were forced into the same "country" which led to massive amounts of bloodshed.
