WorksheetsTopic 10: Progressivism - Muckrakers
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 16mins
Wrote “History of the Standard Oil Company,” in 1902. Showed how Rockefeller’s rise was based on ruthless business practices.
Ida B. Wells
Ida Tarbell
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act)
Upton Sinclair
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
Frank Norris
Co-founder of Hull Houses- which was an all-purpose community center for poor immigrant people living in crowded city neighborhoods.
Jane Addams
Ida Tarbell
Frances Willard
Susan B Anthony
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
1904 - Exposed corruption in city and state gov’t in his book, “The Shame of the Cities.”
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair
WEB DuBois
Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were created in part because
of the book the Jungle.
suffragist were protesting the meat packing industry.
the 18th Amendment
Civil Service Act.
The main purpose of the muckrakers during the early 1900's was to
promote war
reduce the role of government in people's lives
encourage the growth of big business
point out economic and social problems
Jacob Riis, in How the Other Half Lives, and Lincoln Steffens, in The Shame of the Cities, contributed to reform movements in the United States by
exposing poverty and corruption
opposing westward expansion
criticizing racial injustice
supporting organized labor
Which person wrote a book describing the situation shown in the cartoon?
Ralph Nader
Upton Sinclair
Rachel Carson
Ida Tarbell
The cartoon pictures President Roosevelt reacting to the efforts of the
muckrackers
enviornmentalist
prohibitionists
suffragettes
The muckrakers of the early 1900's and investigative reporters of recent times are similar in that both
tried to arouse public opinion on important issues
were tools used by the government to hide corruption
represented radical segments of society
worked against the public interest
Upton Sinclair, Ida M. Tarbell, and Lincoln Steffens were considered muckrakers because they
opposed railroad monopolies
criticized the growing power of labor unions
raised concerns about the negative effects of industrialization
supported the need for reforms in education
One reason Jacob Riis published many photographs similar to this was to
disprove claims of yellow journalists
encourage government assistance for poor farmers
promote the use of child labor
increase public concern over tenement conditions
The term muckraker was used during the Progressive Era to describe
dissatisfied workers who went on strike
Northerners who went South following the Civil War
investigative journalists who exposed societal problems
women who supported the Prohibition movement
Which Progressive Era muckraker’s book led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act?
Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives
Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Frank Norris’s The Octopus
In the early 20th century, muckrakers were able to influence American society mainly by
organizing demonstrations in large cities
contributing to presidential election campaigns
lobbying members of Congress
exposing corruption in business and government
