Muckrakers and Reformers (5A)

Susan B Anthony life's work would influence-

• better rights for workers

• a constitutional amendment prohibiting alcohol

• federal laws that made lynching a hate crime

• a constitutional amendment giving all women suffrage

Wrote “History of the Standard Oil Company,” in 1902. Showed how Rockefeller’s rise was based on ruthless business practices. 

• Ida B. Wells 
• Ida Tarbell 
• Susan B. Anthony 
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton 

1906- 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 

Co-founder of Hull Houses- which was an all-purpose community center for poor immigrant people living in crowded city neighborhoods. 

• Jane Addams 
• Ida Tarbell 
• Frances Willard 
• Susan B Anthony 

Photographed conditions of the urban poor in “How the Other Half Lives.” Examined the conditions of the poor in America’s cities. 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris 

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

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

What was the purpose of Jane Addams' Hull House program?

• Organize workers into labor unions

• Provide a secret space for muckrakers to meet and publish their work

• Assimilate immigrants and help poor women and children

• regulate big businesses

Journalists who exposed practices of monopolies and big business

• Gump Mushers

• Muckrakers

• Scalawags

• Dirt Diggers

Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union would influence-

• better rights for workers

• a constitutional amendment prohibiting alcohol

• federal laws that made lynching a hate crime

• a constitutional amendment giving all women suffrage

How did Upton Sinclair's The Jungle change society? (CHOOSE TWO)

• It led to better working conditions and wages for workers

• It led to the creation of a government agency that oversaw safe food and drug production

• It caused the federal government to mandate meat inspections

• It led to the development of new anti-trust laws that broke up monopolies deemed unfair