I have and essay on why muckrakers were better than roosevelt thought. i have examples of muckrakers. i just need to find out what legislation or action their works promoted. Here is the list of muckrakers...
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
Ray Bakers
John Spargo
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Since you're in AP history, I'm sure you'd be insulted if I did your research for you. :-)
You can find much information about these men by Googling each name separately. You'll probably also find information in Wikipedia and http://encarta.msn.com/
Here are a number of sites on the muckrakers.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=muckrakers&btnG=Google+Search
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