The generation of journalists and social critics who exposed the lobbying methods used by the newly emerging industrial corporations and trusts in the post–Civil War era are collectively referred to as

a. nattering nabobs of negativism.
b. the chattering class.
c. muckrakers.
d. the Know-Nothings.

c. muckrakers.

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A final judgment or decree rendered on the merits, without fraud or collusion, by a court of competent jurisdiction, is conclusive of rights, questions, and facts in issue as to the parties and their privies and is a complete bar to any subsequent action on the same cause of action between the parties, or those in privity with them. This statement explains

a. res judicata. c. dictum. b. the full faith and credit clause. d. stare decisis.

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