As a result of journalist David Graham Phillips's investigative article entitled "The Treason of the Senate," President Theodore Roosevelt began to call such journalists .
A) "mugwumps"
B) the "Talented Tenth"
C) "muckrakers"
D) socialists

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Phillips's investigative work, along with that of other journalists who exposed corruption and societal issues, led President Theodore Roosevelt to coin the term "muckrakers," drawing from a character in John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" who was more interested in raking muck than looking upwards to heaven.

As a Result of Journalist David Graham Phillips's Investigative Article