the Cities (1904), Ida Tarbell exposed Standard Oil Trust abuses and Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" (1906) attacked the meat-packing industry. The socialists were frustrated workers who promised to destroy capitalism. They were rejected by most Progressives as too extreme in their goals and methods. So, Progressives were a diverse lot with various agendas. These agendas were sometimes contradictory, but all of these reformers focused on a set of corrosive problems arising from rapid industrialization, urbanization, waves of immigration, and business and pol
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