Muckrakers changed history in America presenting many laws and reforming people's opinions today. Some things today are still controversial. For example the immigration laws especially with the Mexico problem today people still have issues on immigration policies. This topic is still extremely controversial with people and politics arguing for both sides. While the immigration reforms are very similar in differences of opinion today this does not hold true with child labor and Titans of Industry. To us someone having 7 trillion dollars in today's equivalent is absurd. It's unfathomable to comprehend. That amount of money could never be owned by one person today without people just freaking out about it. Yes, we have people like Bill Gates today but with someone like Rockefeller, containing more money than the U.S. government. As well as the child labor in today's world. We would be devastated if children in America were being treated that way. It seems so obvious to us with that what they were doing was wrong. Without the muckrakers working to change these laws and morals we could have a whole different country today. Our country today is shaped on their petitions and reforms they made back then. Their work changed America for the better. |