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Muckrakers were people who sometimes went undercover to expose businesses and what they do. A few famous muckrakers were Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, and Ray Stannard Baker. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle which exposed the truth about working conditions. But the reaction was different than expected. All it did was set up more health inspections.

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What brought about the idea of Prohibition is women who got the bad effects of alcohol. Not only were the women being abused but sometimes even their kids would get hit. So to try and protect themselves and their children women came together to make alcohol illegal.

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Child labor still went on in this Era. None of the businesses stopped putting children to work.

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During this time some of the business owners in the country tried to improve working conditions. But a lot still didn't and very few ever increased their workers wages.

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The mine wars happened because west Virginia didn't let the coal workers unionize. So when workers did or wanted to they were kicked out of their homes because they lived in company towns. Not only did they have to go to work for the company they also had to buy from their stores.

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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair proves my point on the working conditions. Excerpt A the the Jungle excerpts says that if a man so much as scrapes his finger pushing a truck in the pickles room all of the joints in his finger would be eaten by the acid they used.

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Mark Twain was the first person to call this time the Gilded Age. At first he said as a mockery because Gilded means that you put something over another item to make it look better than it really is.

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The conditions of workers were terrible. A lot of times they were unsanitary and dangerous. So the business owners never tried to improve their worker's conditions or wages during this time.

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The Prohibition was a failure because there not a lot of people supported the idea of it. Also people who were drinking alcohol at the time weren't going to give up easily. During this time alcohol was smuggled into the country.

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Children were sometimes put to work during the gilded age. They started working to be able to help out their parents with money, because during this time not everyone had a lot of money.