Muckrakers and Their Impact

Who popularized the term 'muckraker' in 1906?

• Ida Tarbell

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

• Theodore Roosevelt

What did Ida Tarbell's articles in McClure’s Magazine depict John D. Rockefeller as?

• A social reformer

• A generous philanthropist

• A greedy, miserly monopolist

• A political leader

What was the focus of Ida B. Wells' activism?

• Anti-lynching

• Women's suffrage

• Environmental protection

• Labor rights

Which book by Upton Sinclair exposed horrid conditions at meatpacking plants?

• The Jungle

• The Octopus

• The Shame of the Cities

• How the Other Half Lives

What did Jacob Riis' photo essay 'How the Other Half Lives' document?

• Political cartoons

• Railroad monopolies

• Living conditions of recent immigrants in New York City

• Corruption in city government

Who is known as the 'Father of the American Political Cartoon'?

• Thomas Nast

• Frank Norris

• Lincoln Steffens

• Jacob Riis

What was the result of Upton Sinclair's book 'The Jungle'?

• The New York Tenement House Act

• The establishment of the NAACP

• The breakup of railroad monopolies

• The passage of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act

Which muckraker wrote 'The Shame of the Cities'?

• Ida Tarbell

• Frank Norris

• Upton Sinclair

• Lincoln Steffens

What did Frank Norris' book 'The Octopus' expose?

• Railroads as monopolies

• Meatpacking conditions

• Political corruption

• Living conditions of immigrants

Which muckraker was involved in anti-lynching activism and was a founder of the NAACP?

• Thomas Nast

• Ida B. Wells

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell