Sinclair visited slaughterhouses, literally wading through muck (and blood and guts and filth) then he wrote about it compellingly so that the public became aware of what went into making their hot...
It can be both a social and an economic reform. It can be social because people make up society and the level of educated people in society has effect on it. Also, it can be economic because the more...
It has to do with Temperance, Women's Rights, Abolition, Education, and Religion. It was the time when Puritan ideals were set forth to "better" society.
That's a big question, so I'll try to be brief. There wasn't any. Expand the time frame by 5 years ahead, and you'll have your answer. But in that 40 year period, states fought hard to keep the...