
Muckrakers and Problems
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History
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8th Grade
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Hard
Jacquelyn Corbett
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Journalists who exposed problems in society are called--
Gump Mushers
Muckrakers
Scalawags
Dirt Diggers
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What problem most likely caused Jacob Riis to write "How the Other Half Lives"
Poverty
monopolies
Pollution
Unsafe Products
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
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