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Muckraker Research

Total questions: 71

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who wrote 'How the Other Half Lives', a book with mostly photographs of tenement living in New York City?

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Lewis Hine

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Dorothea Lange

e)

Walker Evans

2.

Which muckraker created the Hull House movement in 1889 to provide social and educational opportunities for the poor in cities?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Lincoln Steffens

3.

Who wrote 'The Jungle', a novel about the working conditions at the meat packing plant in Chicago?

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Mark Twain

c)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

d)

Ernest Hemingway

e)

John Steinbeck

4.

Which muckraker exposed corrupt city governments and wrote 'The Shame of the Cities'?

a)

Lincoln Steffans

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Jacob Riis

5.

Who wrote a series of articles called 'The History of Standard Oil' to fight monopolies and expose unfair business practices?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

John D. Rockefeller

d)

Jacob Riis

6.

Jane Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in which year?

a)

1931

b)

1925

c)

1940

d)

1917

7.

Which muckraker's work led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the federal Food and Drug Administration?

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

Lincoln Steffens

8.

Jacob Riis's book 'How the Other Half Lives' helped create new housing designs and improved safety and sanitation.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Ida Tarbell fought against which company for using unfair methods to crush competition and control prices?

a)

Standard Oil Company

b)

Ford Motor Company

c)

Carnegie Steel Company

d)

General Electric

10.

Upton Sinclair's book 'The Jungle' forced which President to pass legislation to make food safer for consumers?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

11.

Who was the Sherman AntiTrust Act used to break up a monopoly owned by?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

J.P. Morgan

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

12.

In 1911, the Supreme Court ruled that the Standard Oil Company must be broken up into smaller competing companies.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Who became Illinois's first Chief Factory Inspector after documenting poor working conditions at Hull-House?

a)

Florence Kelly

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Ellen Gates Starr

14.

Which act did Florence Kelly help pass to restrict child labor?

a)

Illinois Factory Act of 1893

b)

Sherman Antitrust Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Pendleton Civil Service Act

15.

Florence Kelly was the general secretary of which organization for 30 years?

a)

National Consumers League (NCL)

b)

American Red Cross

c)

League of Women Voters

d)

United Way

16.

Florence Kelly co-founded which organization in 1909 to fight against labor exploitation and racial discrimination?

a)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

b)

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

c)

National Urban League

d)

Women's Christian Temperance Union

17.

W.E.B. Dubois was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. at which university?

a)

Harvard

b)

Yale

c)

Princeton

d)

Stanford

18.

Who co-founded the NAACP and wrote The Souls of Black Folk?

a)

W.E.B. Dubois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Marcus Garvey

19.

Marcus Garvey created the largest mass Black nationalist movement in history. What was the name of this movement?

a)

UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association)

b)

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

c)

SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

d)

SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

20.

Which shipping company did Marcus Garvey start to promote economic self-reliance?

a)

Black Star Line

b)

White Star Line

c)

Red Star Line

d)

Blue Star Line

21.

Eugene V. Debs built which powerful labor union?

a)

American Railway Union (ARU)

b)

Knights of Labor

c)

United Mine Workers

d)

Industrial Workers of the World

22.

Who was a major leader for the rights of the common worker and the most famous leader of the American Socialist Party?

a)

Eugene V. Debs

b)

Samuel Gompers

c)

John L. Lewis

d)

A. Philip Randolph

23.

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to teach practical vocational skills to African Americans?

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Dr. Carlos Montezuma

d)

W.E.B. Du Bois

24.

Which individual taught farmers about Crop Rotation and developed hundreds of new products from those crops?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

George Washington Carver

c)

Dr. Carlos Montezuma

d)

Frederick Douglass

25.

Dr. Carlos Montezuma fought against the control and oppression of Native Americans by which government agency?

a)

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)

b)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

c)

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

d)

United States Forest Service (USFS)

26.

Match the following individuals to their contributions:

a)

Fought for Native American citizenship and against the Bureau of Indian Affairs

1.

Fought for Native American citizenship and against the Bureau of Indian Affairs

b)

Founded the Tuskegee Institute and promoted economic self-help for Black Americans

2.

Founded the Tuskegee Institute and promoted economic self-help for Black Americans

c)

Taught crop rotation and created new markets for Southern farmers

3.

Taught crop rotation and created new markets for Southern farmers

27.

Who wrote the book 'How the Other Half Lives' that showed pictures of homes where poor people lived in New York City?

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Lewis Hine

d)

Jane Addams

e)

Dorothea Lange

28.

Which muckraker helped make houses safer and cleaner?

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Ida Tarbell

d)

Lincoln Steffens

29.

Who started the Hull House in 1889 to help poor people and new immigrants in the city?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Dorothea Dix

d)

Clara Barton

30.

Jane Addams was the first American woman to win a very big prize called the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

Which muckraker wrote 'The Jungle' to expose the harsh conditions in meat factories in Chicago?

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

Lincoln Steffens

32.

Upton Sinclair's book led to the creation of which act that checks our food and medicine?

a)

The Pure Food and Drug Act

b)

The Homestead Act

c)

The Sherman Antitrust Act

d)

The Federal Reserve Act

33.

Who wrote many stories for magazines that were put into a book called 'The Shame of the Cities'?

a)

Lincoln Steffans

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Ida Tarbell

d)

Jacob Riis

34.

Lincoln Steffans helped citizens get the power to fire leaders who were doing wrong.

a)

True

b)

False

35.

Who wrote stories called 'The History of Standard Oil'?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

Lincoln Steffens

36.

Who fought big companies (monopolies) like Standard Oil, which was owned by John D. Rockefeller?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

J.P. Morgan

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

37.

Who said big companies used unfair ways to crush others and control prices?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

J.P. Morgan

38.

Who was involved when the Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil had to be split into smaller companies in 1911?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

J.P. Morgan

39.

Who saw how bad working places were while at Hull-House?

a)

Florence Kelly

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Dorothea Dix

40.

Who helped make a law in 1893 that stopped young kids from working too much?

a)

Florence Kelly

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Jane Addams

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

41.

Who was the first person in Illinois to check factories to make sure the laws were followed?

a)

Florence Kelly

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Eugene V. Debs

42.

Who led a group for 30 years that helped people buy things only from businesses that treated workers well?

a)

Florence Kelly

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Jane Addams

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

43.

Who helped start the NAACP in 1909, which fights against unfairness for people of color and against bad work treatment?

a)

Florence Kelly

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Margaret Sanger

44.

Who wanted to fight unfairness and bad rules (Jim Crow laws) against Black Americans?

a)

W.E.B. Dubois

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Henry Ford

45.

Who said that Black Americans should have equal rights right away?

a)

W.E.B. Dubois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Marcus Garvey

46.

Who was the first Black American to get a very high degree from Harvard school?

a)

W.E.B. Dubois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Harriet Tubman

47.

Who helped start the NAACP, which is a very important group that fights for equal rights?

a)

W.E.B. Dubois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Frederick Douglass

48.

Who wrote a famous book called The Souls of Black Folk?

a)

W.E.B. Dubois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Langston Hughes

49.

Who wanted to fight sadness about race and help Black people feel proud and become rich on their own?

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Frederick Douglass

50.

Who got huge groups of people together in his UNIA group?

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Frederick Douglass

51.

Who helped start businesses owned by Black people, like a ship company called the Black Star Line?

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Frederick Douglass

52.

Whose group (UNIA) was the biggest group in history that stood up for Black people?

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Martin Luther King Jr.

53.

Who helped spread the idea of Black pride all over the world?

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Nelson Mandela

d)

Frederick Douglass

54.

Who wanted to stop big companies from treating workers badly?

a)

Eugene V. Debs

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

J.P. Morgan

55.

Who made a strong group for railroad workers called the American Railway Union (ARU)?

a)

Eugene V. Debs

b)

Samuel Gompers

c)

John L. Lewis

d)

Terence V. Powderly

56.

Who helped start the Socialist Party and tried to become the U.S. President five times?

a)

Eugene V. Debs

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

William Jennings Bryan

57.

Who was a very famous leader who fought for the rights of everyday workers?

a)

Eugene V. Debs

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

J.P. Morgan

d)

John D. Rockefeller

58.

Who thought the government should own important businesses?

a)

Eugene V. Debs

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

John D. Rockefeller

d)

J.P. Morgan

59.

Booker T. Washington wanted to help ________ move out of being poor after slavery ended.

a)

Black Americans

b)

Native Americans

c)

Asian Americans

d)

White Americans

60.

Which school did Booker T. Washington start in Alabama?

a)

Howard University

b)

Tuskegee Institute

c)

Harvard University

d)

Morehouse College

61.

The Tuskegee Institute taught students useful work skills, such as trades and ________.

a)

farming

b)

painting

c)

dancing

d)

singing

62.

Booker T. Washington believed that learning work skills was the main way for Black people to ________.

a)

get ahead

b)

move away

c)

become famous

d)

travel abroad

63.

George Washington Carver helped farmers in the South when their ________ got tired and couldn't grow good food anymore.

a)

dirt (soil)

b)

animals

c)

tools

d)

houses

64.

What did George Washington Carver teach farmers to plant to make the dirt healthy again?

a)

Corn

b)

Peanuts and sweet potatoes

c)

Wheat

d)

Rice

65.

George Washington Carver found hundreds of new things to make from ________.

a)

those crops

b)

metals

c)

plastic

d)

water

66.

George Washington Carver turned common foods into new useful things, like plastics, colors (dyes), and ________, so farmers could sell more.

a)

paints

b)

shoes

c)

books

d)

watches

67.

Dr Carlos Montezuma wanted to fight the U.S. Government group (BIA) that controlled ________.

a)

Native Americans

b)

Immigrants

c)

Federal lands

d)

State governments

68.

Dr Carlos Montezuma was a respected Native doctor and used his voice to tell people that the ________ must be ended right away.

a)

BIA

b)

NHS

c)

FBI

d)

IRS

69.

Dr Carlos Montezuma said all Native people should be ________ of the U.S.

a)

full citizens

b)

temporary residents

c)

foreign visitors

d)

state officials

e)

non-voting members

70.

What group did Dr Carlos Montezuma help start?

a)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

b)

Society of American Indians (SAI)

c)

American Medical Association

d)

United Farm Workers

71.

Dr Carlos Montezuma spoke up for Native people to be able to run their own ________.

a)

groups

b)

schools

c)

businesses

d)

governments