Progressive Reformers & Muckrakers
Efforts to clean up government, regulate business, and improve social welfare.
Key Questions
- 1Which Progressive reform had the most lasting impact on American life?
- 2How did muckrakers like Upton Sinclair influence federal legislation?
- 3Why did the Progressive movement largely fail to address racial injustice?
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