2. muckrakers were

a. city employees who cleaned city streets

b. journalist who exposed social ills

c. men who published fictionalized yellow journalism

d. machine bosses an their employees

Muckrakers were journalists of the Progressive Era (late 19th early 20th century) who wrote articles in major magazines exposing corruption in business, government, even the stock market. B.

From 1841-1850, 1.3 million people moved  overseas, the greatest part around 70% went to the  USA, the rest of them shipped to Australia and only 2% to  Canada.  A lot of people died because of different diseases during the trip and the conditions were terrible. In the USA, quarantine centers were established for arriving ships, where sick emigrants recovered. The emigration continued until the  First World War. Canada and Australia reacted in a different way, because the amount of emigrants was much lower, the greatest part of emigrants decided to move to the  USA. Emigrants had the poorest jobs and bad conditions for life in the USA.