WorksheetsMuckraker Research
Total questions: 71
Worksheet time: 36mins
Who wrote 'How the Other Half Lives', a book with mostly photographs of tenement living in New York City?
Jacob Riis
Lewis Hine
Upton Sinclair
Dorothea Lange
Walker Evans
Which muckraker created the Hull House movement in 1889 to provide social and educational opportunities for the poor in cities?
Jane Addams
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Lincoln Steffens
Who wrote 'The Jungle', a novel about the working conditions at the meat packing plant in Chicago?
Upton Sinclair
Mark Twain
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Which muckraker exposed corrupt city governments and wrote 'The Shame of the Cities'?
Lincoln Steffans
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Who wrote a series of articles called 'The History of Standard Oil' to fight monopolies and expose unfair business practices?
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
John D. Rockefeller
Jacob Riis
Jane Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in which year?
1931
1925
1940
1917
Which muckraker's work led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the federal Food and Drug Administration?
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Jacob Riis
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis's book 'How the Other Half Lives' helped create new housing designs and improved safety and sanitation.
True
False
Ida Tarbell fought against which company for using unfair methods to crush competition and control prices?
Standard Oil Company
Ford Motor Company
Carnegie Steel Company
General Electric
Upton Sinclair's book 'The Jungle' forced which President to pass legislation to make food safer for consumers?
Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who was the Sherman AntiTrust Act used to break up a monopoly owned by?
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
In 1911, the Supreme Court ruled that the Standard Oil Company must be broken up into smaller competing companies.
True
False
Who became Illinois's first Chief Factory Inspector after documenting poor working conditions at Hull-House?
Florence Kelly
Jane Addams
Ida B. Wells
Ellen Gates Starr
Which act did Florence Kelly help pass to restrict child labor?
Illinois Factory Act of 1893
Sherman Antitrust Act
Homestead Act
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Florence Kelly was the general secretary of which organization for 30 years?
National Consumers League (NCL)
American Red Cross
League of Women Voters
United Way
Florence Kelly co-founded which organization in 1909 to fight against labor exploitation and racial discrimination?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
National Urban League
Women's Christian Temperance Union
W.E.B. Dubois was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. at which university?
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
Who co-founded the NAACP and wrote The Souls of Black Folk?
W.E.B. Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Frederick Douglass
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey created the largest mass Black nationalist movement in history. What was the name of this movement?
UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association)
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
Which shipping company did Marcus Garvey start to promote economic self-reliance?
Black Star Line
White Star Line
Red Star Line
Blue Star Line
Eugene V. Debs built which powerful labor union?
American Railway Union (ARU)
Knights of Labor
United Mine Workers
Industrial Workers of the World
Who was a major leader for the rights of the common worker and the most famous leader of the American Socialist Party?
Eugene V. Debs
Samuel Gompers
John L. Lewis
A. Philip Randolph
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to teach practical vocational skills to African Americans?
George Washington Carver
Booker T. Washington
Dr. Carlos Montezuma
W.E.B. Du Bois
Which individual taught farmers about Crop Rotation and developed hundreds of new products from those crops?
Booker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
Dr. Carlos Montezuma
Frederick Douglass
Dr. Carlos Montezuma fought against the control and oppression of Native Americans by which government agency?
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
United States Forest Service (USFS)
Match the following individuals to their contributions:
Fought for Native American citizenship and against the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Fought for Native American citizenship and against the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Founded the Tuskegee Institute and promoted economic self-help for Black Americans
Founded the Tuskegee Institute and promoted economic self-help for Black Americans
Taught crop rotation and created new markets for Southern farmers
Taught crop rotation and created new markets for Southern farmers
Who wrote the book 'How the Other Half Lives' that showed pictures of homes where poor people lived in New York City?
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair
Lewis Hine
Jane Addams
Dorothea Lange
Which muckraker helped make houses safer and cleaner?
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Who started the Hull House in 1889 to help poor people and new immigrants in the city?
Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony
Dorothea Dix
Clara Barton
Jane Addams was the first American woman to win a very big prize called the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
True
False
Which muckraker wrote 'The Jungle' to expose the harsh conditions in meat factories in Chicago?
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Jacob Riis
Lincoln Steffens
Upton Sinclair's book led to the creation of which act that checks our food and medicine?
The Pure Food and Drug Act
The Homestead Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act
The Federal Reserve Act
Who wrote many stories for magazines that were put into a book called 'The Shame of the Cities'?
Lincoln Steffans
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Jacob Riis
Lincoln Steffans helped citizens get the power to fire leaders who were doing wrong.
True
False
Who wrote stories called 'The History of Standard Oil'?
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Lincoln Steffens
Who fought big companies (monopolies) like Standard Oil, which was owned by John D. Rockefeller?
Ida Tarbell
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Who said big companies used unfair ways to crush others and control prices?
Ida Tarbell
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Who was involved when the Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil had to be split into smaller companies in 1911?
Ida Tarbell
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Who saw how bad working places were while at Hull-House?
Florence Kelly
Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony
Dorothea Dix
Who helped make a law in 1893 that stopped young kids from working too much?
Florence Kelly
Susan B. Anthony
Jane Addams
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who was the first person in Illinois to check factories to make sure the laws were followed?
Florence Kelly
Jane Addams
Ida B. Wells
Eugene V. Debs
Who led a group for 30 years that helped people buy things only from businesses that treated workers well?
Florence Kelly
Susan B. Anthony
Jane Addams
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who helped start the NAACP in 1909, which fights against unfairness for people of color and against bad work treatment?
Florence Kelly
Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony
Margaret Sanger
Who wanted to fight unfairness and bad rules (Jim Crow laws) against Black Americans?
W.E.B. Dubois
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Who said that Black Americans should have equal rights right away?
W.E.B. Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Frederick Douglass
Marcus Garvey
Who was the first Black American to get a very high degree from Harvard school?
W.E.B. Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Who helped start the NAACP, which is a very important group that fights for equal rights?
W.E.B. Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Who wrote a famous book called The Souls of Black Folk?
W.E.B. Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Frederick Douglass
Langston Hughes
Who wanted to fight sadness about race and help Black people feel proud and become rich on their own?
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Frederick Douglass
Who got huge groups of people together in his UNIA group?
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Frederick Douglass
Who helped start businesses owned by Black people, like a ship company called the Black Star Line?
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Frederick Douglass
Whose group (UNIA) was the biggest group in history that stood up for Black people?
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. Du Bois
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who helped spread the idea of Black pride all over the world?
Marcus Garvey
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nelson Mandela
Frederick Douglass
Who wanted to stop big companies from treating workers badly?
Eugene V. Debs
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Who made a strong group for railroad workers called the American Railway Union (ARU)?
Eugene V. Debs
Samuel Gompers
John L. Lewis
Terence V. Powderly
Who helped start the Socialist Party and tried to become the U.S. President five times?
Eugene V. Debs
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
William Jennings Bryan
Who was a very famous leader who fought for the rights of everyday workers?
Eugene V. Debs
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Who thought the government should own important businesses?
Eugene V. Debs
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Booker T. Washington wanted to help ________ move out of being poor after slavery ended.
Black Americans
Native Americans
Asian Americans
White Americans
Which school did Booker T. Washington start in Alabama?
Howard University
Tuskegee Institute
Harvard University
Morehouse College
The Tuskegee Institute taught students useful work skills, such as trades and ________.
farming
painting
dancing
singing
Booker T. Washington believed that learning work skills was the main way for Black people to ________.
get ahead
move away
become famous
travel abroad
George Washington Carver helped farmers in the South when their ________ got tired and couldn't grow good food anymore.
dirt (soil)
animals
tools
houses
What did George Washington Carver teach farmers to plant to make the dirt healthy again?
Corn
Peanuts and sweet potatoes
Wheat
Rice
George Washington Carver found hundreds of new things to make from ________.
those crops
metals
plastic
water
George Washington Carver turned common foods into new useful things, like plastics, colors (dyes), and ________, so farmers could sell more.
paints
shoes
books
watches
Dr Carlos Montezuma wanted to fight the U.S. Government group (BIA) that controlled ________.
Native Americans
Immigrants
Federal lands
State governments
Dr Carlos Montezuma was a respected Native doctor and used his voice to tell people that the ________ must be ended right away.
BIA
NHS
FBI
IRS
Dr Carlos Montezuma said all Native people should be ________ of the U.S.
full citizens
temporary residents
foreign visitors
state officials
non-voting members
What group did Dr Carlos Montezuma help start?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Society of American Indians (SAI)
American Medical Association
United Farm Workers
Dr Carlos Montezuma spoke up for Native people to be able to run their own ________.
groups
schools
businesses
governments
