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Which Muckraker exposed problems with the meat-packing industry in the book 'The Jungle'?

• Jacob Riis
• Ida B. Wells
• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell

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Muckrakers were

• progressive reformers who sought legal changes to problems
• politicians who passed laws cleaning up the "muck" in society
• governors who wanted to get rid of monopolies
• journalists who wrote about the problems in society

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Who wrote the “History of the Standard Oil Company,” in 1902 and showed how Rockefeller’s rise was based on unfair business practices? 

• Ida B. Wells 
• Ida Tarbell 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

What was a result of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Sherman Anti Trust Act
• none of the above

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What was a result of Ida Tarbell's work?

• The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed.
• People discovered the conditions of the poor in urban areas.
• Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company was prosecuted under the Sherman Anti-trust Act
• none of the above

Photographed conditions of the urban poor in “How the Other Half Lives.” Examined the conditions of the poor in America’s cities. 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris 

Who wrote "The Jungle" which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry?

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris 

Co-founder of Hull Houses- which was an all-purpose community center for poor immigrant people living in crowded city neighborhoods. 

• Jane Addams 
• Ida Tarbell 
• Frances Willard 
• Susan B Anthony 

Muckrakers were investigative reporters and writers during which time period?

• Reconstruction Era

• Second Great Awakening

• Progressive Era

• Antebellum Period

One reason Jacob Riis published many photographs similar to this was to

• disprove claims of yellow journalists

• encourage government assistance for poor farmers

• promote the use of child labor

• increase public concern over tenement conditions