Progressives and Muckrakers

Progressives and Muckrakers

by Erik Hauck

​Progressives and Muckrakers

• ​Progressives were reformers who wanted to change problems in the late 1890s to the 1920s.

• Muckrakers were ​​investigative reporters who exposed scandals and corruption in government and industry.

​Muckrakers

• ​investigative reporters who exposed scandals and corruption in government and industry.

​Progressives and Muckrakers

• Jane Addams

• ​W.E.B DuBois

• Marcus Garvey

• Ida Tarbell

• Eugene Debs

• Jacob Riis

• Booker T. Washington

• Upton Sinclair

​Jane Addams

• "new women" - women who was educated and pursued interests outside their homes.

• ​set up Hull House, a Chicago settlement house to help urban poor.

• ​pioneer in social work

​Booker T. Washington

• ​1856-1915

• ​Accepted segregation in return for basic economic opportunity.

​W.E.B DuBois

• ​1868-1963

• ​Criticized Booker T. Washington for accepting inequality.

• ​Insisted on voting rights and social equality for African Americans.

​Jacob Riis

• ​1849-1914

• ​ An american photographer who exposed living conditions in the slums of New York City.

• ​Put the photos in a book called "How the Other Half live."

​Upton Sinclair

• ​1878-1968

• ​Muckraker who wrote the book the "Jungle".

• ​The book exposed working conditions in the meat packing plant.

Multiple Choice

Booker T. Washington believed that

• economic success would lead to equality

• equality would lead to economic success

• African Americans must be equal to white people at all levels of society

• getting job training would hurt African Americans.

Multiple Choice

Muckrakers were responsible for

• lowering tariffs

• shielding the public from news about reform laws

• yellow journalism

• exposing corruption

Multiple Choice

Which progressive started settlement house in Chicago

• Upton Sinclair

• Jane Addams

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

Multiple Choice

Who brought reform to living conditions in cities with his book how the "How the other half lived"

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

Multiple Choice

Founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

Multiple Choice

He wrote the book the Jungle that about what it was like to work in the meat packing plant in Chicago.

• Jacob Riis

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Upton Sinclair

• Booker T. Washington