The deplorable working conditions that many american laborers were forced to endure led to the rise of muckrakers, such as upton sinclair, in the early twentieth century. which of the following best describes the types of individuals to whom the term "muckraker" refers?
a. radical nativists whose writing sought to convince the government to regulate immigration. b. playwrights who turned the social struggles of american laborers into popular stage productionsc. economic writers who charted the rise of american industry and the social changes it brought about. d. investigative journalists whose work sought to bring about social reform and relief for the lowerclasses.

The answer is: D. Investigative journalists whose work sought to bring about social reform and relief for the lower classes.

Explanation:

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, muckraker is a person, especially one in a news organization, who tries to find out unpleasant information about people or organizations in order to make it public.

Upton Sinclair was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short-story writer, who wrote  "The Jungle" a 1906 novel . It was written to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

explanation:

native americans suffered high rates of poverty and unemployment.

during the late 1960s and early 1970sthe need for political militancy grew among the native americans. throughout the 1960s, they had been the nation's poorest minority group, the most deprived group, according to practically every socioeconomic measure. in 1970, the indian unemployment rate was 10 times the national average, and 40 percent of the native american people were below the poverty line.