Muckraker Vocabulary

Businesses that take mineral resources from the earth.

• Extractive industries

• Muckrakers

• Tammany Hall

• Political Machines

Novel that described unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.

• How the Other Half Lives

• The Jungle

• Tammany Hall

• The Wealth of Nations

The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) was created in response to:

• The Wealth of Nations

• How the Other Half Lives

• The Jungle

• Tammany Hall

Famous Muckraker and Photo Journalist who sought to expose the conditions of the slums in his book, "How the Other Half Lives."

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclair

• William Tweed

To take away someone's ability to vote

• Disenfranchise

• Suffrage

• Disillusion

• Patronage

Political machines did NOT do which of the following:

• Help immigrants and victims of house fires

• Rig elections through the manipulation of facial hair

• Embezzle tax-payer funds

• Manufacture polish ticks

The Pendleton Act sought to get rid of this by instituting civil service exams

• patronage

• disenfranchisement

• immigration

• political machines

Legalized segregation

• Brown Vs Board of Education

• The Dred Scott Case

• Jim Crow Laws

• The Grandfather Clause

Methods of disenfranchising African American men during the gilded age:

• Literacy Tests

• Poll Taxes

• Grandfather Clauses

• All of these

The Temperance movement sought to:

• limit political corruption

• end segregation between whites and blacks

• improve the structure in tenement buildings

• limit the consumption of alcohol