The Muckrakers

Question 1

Ida B. Wells’s book The Red Record

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exposed the horrors of lynching in America.

Question 2

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 3

What did Ida B. Wells work to end through her muckraking articles?

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lynching of and discrimination against African Americans

Question 4

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis exposed

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the harsh living conditions in New York City slums.

Question 5

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

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Ida Tarbell

Question 6

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 7

Who first applied the term muckraker to journalism?

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President Theodore Roosevelt

Question 8

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 9

A muckraker was a reporter who wrote

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about corruption and crime in industry and government.

Question 10

Which of these was a corrupt business practice that Frank Norris exposed in The Octopus?

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railroad companies selling land to farmers and secretly keeping legal ownership of the land

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