Progressive Era Assessment #1

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

• Dangers faced by coal miners
• Corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company
• Unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
• Illegal deals between special interests and the government

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

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

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as

• muckrakers
• suffragists
• immigrants
• abolitionists

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is credited with exposing the unsanitary conditions in the food industry and helping to pass the

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• 18th Amendment
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Equal Rights Amendment

Wrote "How the other half lives" exposing conditions in the slums

• Susan B. Anthony
• Boss Tweed
• Jacob Riis
• Jane Addams

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 

Poorly built overcrowded apartment buildings often occupied by immigrants were called _____________.

• tenements
• apartments
• Hull House
• sweatshops

_______________ became famous for exposing the horrible conditions of tenements in New York City.

• Jacob Riis
• Jane Addams
• Frederick Olmstead
  
• Florence Kelley

What was the book/novel, The Jungle about?

• Terrible working conditions in mines.

• Terrible working conditions and unclean practices in the meatpacking industry.

• Unfair murder of African American and others by "lynching"- hanging without a trial to instill fear.

• political corruption