Muckrakers

Muckrakers

Raking up the ¨Muck¨ of Industrialization

Multiple Choice

How did the public get their information during the early 1900s?

• TV

• Internet

• Cellphones

• Newspapers & Magazines

Multiple Choice

Muckrakers were...

• Singers

• Street Cleaners

• Writers

Multiple Choice

What was the main goal of muckrakers?

• expose the wrongdoings of industrialization

• Clean up the streets

• Win Nobel Peace Prizes

Multiple Choice

Reform is...

• a positive change

• a popular game

• a landform

Multiple Choice

The work of the muckrakers led to....

• more people moving west.

• Reconstruction coming to an end.

• New laws and legislation

Poll

Muckraker Upton Sinclair wrote the book, The Jungle. What do you THINK it was about?

• Farms

• The Amazon Rainforest

• Lions and Tigers

• Factories

• Meatpacking Plants

Poll

I know what a muckraker is now.

• True

• False

Poll

I can explain what muckrakers were trying to do.

• True

• False

Poll

I think muckrakers were Progressives

• True

• False