Hello, I’m Kelly E from Mr. Sal’s period six twentieth century class. Muckrakers wrote informational pieces that opened the eyes of the public to factory problems. The muckrakers went and, checked out factory conditions and then proceeded to write about them. They put their own option into these writings they did and, sold it to the public. They did that to try and advance the changes that needed to be done to the factories at that time period.

One of the most famous muckrakers was Upton Sinclair. He wrote about the horrible conditions of the Meat preparation factory. He explained in detail how dirty and, unsafe the factory was. He stated that rat feces covered and, went into the food. This outraged and, scared people. He continued to inform the people about these things till they got fixed or, they changed. Another muckraker was a man by the name of Mr. Tarbell. He targeted the Standard oil company’s harsh ways of dealing with people and their poor safety conditions. When these issues were brought to the public they demanded they be fixed. The government stepped up and, took care of some of the issues. Somethings though failed to be fixed so, people had to take matters into their own hands. They would protest for these things to be fix or, banned. Take for insistence child labor, or the time when all those women died in the sewing factory. The muckrakers helped bring changed through their writings and, bettered the Cities.