Who were the muckrakers and what effect did they have on american life?

1. what did john w. mackay and george hearst have in common? 2. how did the speculators price land during the gold rush? at what price was the ophir quoted? 3. there were many drawbacks to industrial mining. name one.

During the cold war, which of the following groups of countries would have all been"behind the iron curtain"

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is