Among other activities designed to improve the lives of Americans, Progressives worked hard to break up trusts and regulate businesses. Answer the following questions about their activities in this area. (5 points total Who were the muckrakers? (2 points) Who was Upton Sinclair? What government action did his work inspire? (3 points)
The overall share of Americans who express consistently conservative or consistently liberal opinions has doubled over the past two decades from 10% to 21%. And ideological thinking is now much more closely aligned with partisanship than in the past. As a result, ideological overlap between the two parties has diminished: Today, 92% of Republicans are to the right of the median Democrat, and 94% of Democrats are to the left of the median Republican.
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