Here, this should help.
*History Nerd Mode Activated!*
During the winter Stalin went through, he began attacking 'Kulaks' for not supplying enough food for the industrial workers. He also advocated the setting up of collective farms. The proposal involved small farmers joining forces to form large-scale units.
Muckrakers exposed all of the flaws in society and the government and a lot of books were written about the problems there were. Poor working conditions, child labor, and quality of processed meat and other foods were big issues. During that time period people were big on from of press so that and the fact that people were just fed up in general led to reform.
The Brain Trust.
They were a core group of advisors that helped FDR enact fifteen major laws in their first "hundred days" in office.
