Ida Tarbell wrote muckraking articles about the standard oil company.Why did she think this was important?

Well, I for one, wouldn’t take the time and energy and it must take to do the research for those articles. I think she simply must have wanted to educate the public on something most of us don’t even think about until the price of oil skyrockets.

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