Ameliorate Muckrakers

Directions: correct the following sentence(s), in red.There are 4 missing commas and a missing period.

Investigative journalists novelists and photographers during the Gilded Age were called “Muckrakers” they exposed corruption in government big business and social ills like poverty.

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Investigative journalists, novelists, and photographers during the Gilded Age were called “Muckrakers.” They exposed corruption in government, big business, and social ills like poverty.

Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

Directions: grammatically correct the sentence below, in red. This sentence is missing one comma, and it has a few apostrophe errors.

Homer plessys lawyer's argued that the state law requiring segregated trains had denied Plessy his wrights under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth amendments which provided four equal treatment under the law.

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Homer Plessy's lawyers argued that the state law requiring segregated trains had denied Plessy his rights under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth amendments, which provided for equal treatment under the law.