Muckrakers

This is an excerpt from an essay published in McClure’s Magazine in 1905.

"Mr. Rockefeller has not squandered his income. He has applied it for thirty-five years to accumulating, not only oil property but real estate--railroad stock, iron mines, copper mines, anything and everything which could be bought cheap by temporary depressing and made to yield rich by his able management. For thirty-five years he has depreciated values when necessary to get his prey."

Which term best defines the author of this essay?

Which of the following groups did Jacob Riis and Jane Addams strive to help?

• Native Americans

• African Americans

• urban immigrants

• women seeking suffrage

Which amendment addressed the issue referenced on this woman's banner?

This question was posed by President Wilson at the conclusion of World War I.

"We have made partners of the women in this war...shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?"

The question marks a shift in Wilson’s position on which issue?

• higher education for women

• equal pay for women

• women's suffrage

• women's membership in unions

This is an excerpt from a book published in 1906.

"It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them, they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together."

Congressional action in response to this book led to what practice?

• the inspection of meat and other food products

• the adoption of the referendum, recall, and initiative

• the expansion of the meat packing industries powerful monopoly

• the reduction of quotas on food products

Analyze the photograph, and answer the question.

What is most likely the reason Jacob Riis, a Progressive Era muckraker, published this photograph?

• to increase nativism towards new immigrants

• to show the effects of political machines in urban areas

• to show poor people how the rest of society lived

• to show the overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in tenements

This is the first line of a law passed in 1906.

"An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious food, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulated traffic therein, and for other purposes."

What prompted the passing of this law?

• A fictional book led to a public outcry about the conditions in food-producing factories.

• A government study revealed inconsistencies in practices of food-producing factories.

• A change in international trade laws required the United States to update its laws related to food production.

• A shift in production facilities to factories in Midwest states created a need for better regulation of food transportation.

This chart gives information about some progressive reformers in the early 20th century.

What generalization can be drawn from this information?

• Women experienced little success as they fought for social, economic, and political changes.

• Women only worked on reforms related to their domestic roles in the home.

• Women played an important role in the Progressive Movement of the early 20th century.

• Women were unable to contribute to the Progressive Movement of the early 20th century.

Which of the following choices BEST completes the above flowchart?

• A large percentage of Americans turned vegetarian.

• Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.

• The National Institute of Health was set up in 1905.

• Muckrakers lost a lot of support in the U.S.

The "Holy War" illustrated in the cartoon was an effort to

• Ban the sale of alcoholic beverages

• Recruit women soldiers

• Promote world peace

• Spread Christian religious beliefs