Muckrakers

A journalist who worked to expose the problems of a city was called:

• A Spoiler

• A Muckracker

• A worker

• A union boass

How/Why did muckrakers get their name?

• They "raked" up dirt or "muck" and exposed it.

• Because they worked in barns.

• They liked to make up muck, or stuff that wasn't true.

• It was the name of the newspaper they worked for.

What did Jacob Riis devote his life to?

• Showing the horrors of lynching

• Showing the horrors of child labor

• Showing the horrors of Standard Oil's business practices

• Showing the horrors of life in the slums for immigrants and poor Americans

What book did Upton Sinclair publish?

• The History of Standard Oil Company

• The Bitter Cry of the Children

• The Jungle

• How the Other Half Lives

What did Upton Sinclair expose in his book?

• The horrors of the meat packing industry

• The horrors of child labor

• The horrors of city housing (slums) for immigrants and poor Americans

• The horrors of lynching

What did John Spargo expose in his book?

• The horrors of the meat packing industry

• The horrors of child labor

• The horrors of city housing (slums) for immigrants and poor Americans

• The horrors of lynching

What did Ida Tarbell expose in her book?

• The horrors of the meat packing industry

• The horrors of child labor

• The horrors of the unfair business practices of the Standard Oil Company

• The horrors of lynching

What issue did Ida B. Wells expose?

• The horrors of the meat packing industry

• The horrors of child labor

• The horrors of city housing (slums) for immigrants and poor Americans

• The horrors of lynching in the south

The practice of elected officials giving jobs to their supporters

• the Pendelton Act

• civil service

• The spoils system

• interstate commerce

Law that attempted to regulate the railroad industry

• the Pendleton Act

• the Interstate Commerce Act

• The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• The Civil Service Commission