Muckrakers

American reformer and leader in the anti-lynching crusade and women’s suffrage movement.

• Jane Addams 
• Susan B. Anthony 
• Ida B. Wells 
• Ida Tarbell 

Journalists who exposed practices of big business and corruption in society

• Gump Mushers

• Muckrakers

• Scalawags

• Dirt Diggers

Which two federal acts were passed as a result of the book "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair?

• Anti Sherman Act & Clayton AntiTrust Act

• Federal Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food and Drug Act

• Federal Meatpacking Sanitation & Holy Foods Act

• 16th & 17th amendments

To put an end to something wrong of immoral. To make an existing situation better by helping certain groups of people.

• Reform

• Reshape

• Remould

• Rebound

A period of time when social, economic, and political problems caused by rapid industrialization and urbanization were exposed and in some cases reformed

• Industrialization

• Progressive Era

• Reconstruction

• Gilded Age

Which agency did the federal government establish to protect consumer’s safety as a response to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?

• Food and Drug Administration

• NAACP

• National Park Service

• Environmental Protection Agency

What did the Meat Inspection Act accomplish?

• Banned the use of assembly lines

• Allowed the government to have unlimited power

• Cleaned up meat-packing factories

• Advocated for minority groups

This muckraker took photographs in the tenements of New York City, showing the terrible conditions.

• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell
• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hine

This muckraker wrote The Jungle, detailing the abuses in the meat packing industry.

• Ida Tarbell
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair
• Lewis Hine

What was Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle about?

• It exposed John D Rockefeller's ruthless business tactics.

• It exposed the filthy condition of meat factories in the United States.

• It showed the horrible conditions of people in tenement homes.

• It documented the lynchings of African Americans.