Muckrakers and Problems

Muckrakers and Problems

8th Grade

8 Qs

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Muckrakers and Problems

Muckrakers and Problems

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History

8th Grade

Hard

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8 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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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

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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

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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

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Lewis Hine

Ida B. Wells

Teddy Roosevelt

Jacob Riis