Muckrakers and Problems

Which muckraker wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act)

• Upton Sinclair

• Lincoln Steffens

• Jacob Riis

• Frank Norris

Ida Tarbell wrote the “History of the Standard Oil Company,” in 1902 and showed how Rockefeller’s rise was based on ruthless business practices, exposing which problem?

• pollution

• monopoly power

• poverty

• racism

Journalists who exposed problems in society are called--

• Gump Mushers

• Muckrakers

• Scalawags

• Dirt Diggers

What problem most likely caused Jacob Riis to write "How the Other Half Lives"

• Poverty

• monopolies

• Pollution

• Unsafe Products

Which muckraker would be MOST OPPOSED to the following problem: destruction of forests and land, pollution of rivers and lakes

• Ida Tarbell

• Ida B. Wells

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Jacob Riis

The Jim Crow Laws segregated the south and lynchings were occurring more frequently. This led to what action?

• Ida B. Wells wrote articles about lynching in her magazine "Free Speech and Headlight"

• Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle"

• Thomas Nast drew cartoons about corruption

• Teddy Roosevelt helped created national parks

Thomas Nast drew political cartoons about Boss Tweed and the illegal actions that were happening in government. He exposed what problem?

• corruption

• pollution

• monopolies

• poverty

Which muckraker was responsible for the exposing child labor through images, like the one above?

• Lewis Hine

• Ida B. Wells

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Jacob Riis