The information below identifies examples of the work of the muckrakers. Upton Sinclair exposed the unhealthy practices of Chicago’s meat-packing plants.
Ida Tarbell revealed the dishonest business tactics of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company.
Jacob Riis wrote How the Other Half Lives, showing the conditions of the residents of New York City tenements.

What was the impact of these muckraking activities during the early 1900s?

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Society changed in response to their promotion of Social Darwinism.

Public reaction to their books led to new laws addressing the abuses of industrialization.

Voters agreed to let the owners of Big Business create more profitable monopolies.

Reports of these works in publications abroad led to a sudden decrease in immigration