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In all fairness, it's a Corruption Perception Index, so this doesn't mean that Corruption before wasn't horribly bad, just that people did not perceive it so.
It's not by chance that this index has the curious effect that when the Justice System in a country starts cracking down on Corruption that country's position on this index gets worse (probably because there are a lot more news about corrupt people being arrested during such a crack down, hence the perception of corruption goes up).
Judging by how these things are managed in the UK, the secret to look good on the index is for the Justice System to not even investigate allegations of Corruption (much less prosecute and convict) so officially there is no Corruption and if the Press ever publishes articles about Corruption they get sued for Defamation by the Corrupt and lose since the de facto Corrupt have never been convicted hence are not de jure so and in the eyes of the Law cannot be publicity said to be Corrupt, so the Press never points out Corruption and people tend to think everything is squeaky clean (mind you, this doesn't work in countries with lots of low level corruption - say, coppers demanding money for not seeing traffic infractions - because low level corruption is evident in day to day life whilst high level Corruption is not).
I suspect that the Perception of Corruption has been managed in the US in s similar way to how it's managed in the UK.
Mind you, I'm not saying the US isn't even more Corrupt now than before, only that the perception of it probably severely underestimated the reality (and quite likely still does).