common assessment #4

What was the main goal of most muckraking journalists?

• to gain fame thru creation of articles

• to expose social/economic problems in need of political attention

• to increase public awareness of America's great potential

• to end corrupt relationships

What themes were common in writings of the muckrakers and authors such as Upton Sinclair?

• immorality and greed

• disadvantages of a growing consumer culture

• problems created by unrestricted immigration & economic disparity between rural and urban residents.

• increasing influence of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

The progressive movement was most responsible for which development?

• politicians taking a laissez-faire approach to economic issues

• government becoming more responsive to social issues

• a growing interest in expanding US influence

• the application of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution

What is a muckraker?

• bookwriters

• journalists and photographers who exposed the abuses of wealth and power.

• another name for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution

• people who clean out horse stalls

Who was a famous muckraker whose photographs became famous for pictures of tenement housing?

• Thomas Nast

• Jacob Riis

• Margret Sanger

• Upton Sinclair

What factor most contributed to the Great Chicago Fire's widespread destruction?

• firefighters' inability to communicate

• the city's limited water supply

• theft of fire department funds

• extensive wood frame construction in homes/businesses.

Read excerpt: ...continued growth of population in the great cities, consequent congestion of centers and rise in value of ground, stimulate and increase in number of stories; these successfully piled one another, react on ground value.

From this excerpt, what can you conclude:

• the greatest population increases incurred in industrial cities

• rising property values in cities stimulated development

• the stories of immigrants revealed the hardship of living in cities

• increasing congestion resulted in suburban growth.

Why did nativists worry about an influx of immigrants during the 1880's ?

• they feared the immigrants would gain control of city and state government and encourage more immigration

• they believed the immigrants would receive preferential treatment from the federal government and be given large tracts of land.

• they thought the country's ports could not handle the increasing number of immigrants as well as an increasing amount of exports.

• they considered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe more difficult to assimilate into American culture than earlier immigrants.

In their work with immigrants, settlement houses mainly addressed which need?

• occupational skills

• spiritual guidance

• affordable housing

• cultural adjustment

John Steinbeck said,"We built America and the process made us Americans - a new breed, rooted in all races, stained and tinted with all colors, a seeming ethnic anarchy. Then in a little, little time we became more alike than we were different- a new society.

• culture shock

• social Darwinism

• civil rights

• melting pot