2.05 Asynchronous Assignment - Muckrakers

What is a muckraker?

• A street cleaner

• A journalist exposing problems in society

• The President of the United States

• Rutherford B. Hayes

Why did the Progressive Era come into existence?

• Americans believed in building bigger businesses.

• Americans wanted to continue creating monopolies.

• JP Morgan and Andrew Carnegie started it to take over the federal government.

• There was a need to change the corruption found in society and politics.

The book The Jungle showed problems in which area of society?

• Wildlife conservation

• Child labor

• Meatpacking industry

• Pollution

Ida Tarbell attacked which big business with her writing?

• Standard Oil Company

• Union Pacific Railroad

• Chicago Meatpackers

• US Steel Corporation

What medium did Lewis Hines and Jacob Riis use to show the corruption in society?

• Newspapers

• Magazine articles

• Political cartoons

• Photographs

Jacob Riis exposed what type of problems with his photography?

• Monopolies

• Tenements in New York City

• Meatpacking

• Foreign policy

Which muckraker would have snapped this photograph?

• Lincoln Steffens

• Ida Tarbell

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Lewis Hines

The muckraker Lewis Hines exposed what area of society?

• New York City tenements

• Chicago meat packing

• Child labor

• Unsafe mines

What changes occurred as a result of Jacob Riis's photographs?

• Child labor laws

• Formation of labor unions

• Housing codes and regulation

• Meat Inspection Act