The Muckrakers

Question 1

Which aspect of Upton Sinclair’s life best explains his reasons for writing The Jungle?

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his socialist politics

Question 2

Which of the following was an unintended result of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?

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Laws were passed to ensure food and drug safety.

Question 3

President Roosevelt’s call to action upon reading Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is best described as

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movement to ensure sanitary conditions in meat-packing plants by signing new legislation

Question 4

Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives shocked the American public with its use of

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powerful photographs depicting conditions in city slums.

Question 5

How did Ida Tarbell help end the Standard Oil monopoly?

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She wrote a series of articles exposing the corruption of Standard Oil.

Question 6

Ida B. Wells’s book The Red Record

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exposed the horrors of lynching in America.

Question 7

Who first applied the term muckraker to journalism?

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President Theodore Roosevelt

Question 8

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis exposed

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the harsh living conditions in New York City slums.

Question 9

best

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The public began to take action by setting up committees and supporting reform candidates.

Question 10

Which of these writers helped bring about the breakup of the Standard Oil monopoly?

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Ida Tarbell

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