Muckrakers

This muckraker took on Standard Oil.

• Ida Tarbell

• Lincoln Steffens

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

Journalists who exposed and published about corruption in business and politics.

• Yellow Journalists

• Muckrakers

• Slanderers

• Libelists

Choose which of the following helped Progressives decided to make "A better American society" (Choose ALL that apply)

• Protecting Social Welfare

• Promoting moral improvement

• Economic reform/competition

• Run by corporations and crooked politicians.

This muckraker wrote a book entitled The Jungle which exposed disgusting practices in the meat packing industry.

• Lincoln Steffens

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

• Jacob Riis

This word refers to a movement that is anti-alcohol

• temperance

• suffrage

• civil rights

• rum runners

Famer's Political Party

• A.I.M.

• Populists

• Chicanos

• Famer's Unite

William "Boss" Tweed was a corrupt political machine boss, who was exposed by reporter and political cartoonist Thomas Nast. What was the name of his organization?

• Tamberlane Hall

• Trenton Hall

• Tammany Hall

• New York City Hall

• Greenwich Village Hall

People like Upton Sinclair were ___________________ because they investigated and exposed abuse and corruption.

• Supporters of Political Machines

• Nativists

• Muckrakers

• Industialists

Who wrote The Jungle?

• Jane Addams

• Charles Darwin

• Upton Sinclair

• Chester Arthur

What government change occurred because of The Jungle?

• Regulation of cash crops used for food for cattle

• Unionization of meat industry

• Creation of a federal health department

• Federal Meat Inspection Act