Women's Rights and Suffrage

Question 1

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 2

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

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lynching of and discrimination against African Americans

Question 3

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis exposed

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the harsh living conditions in New York City slums.

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

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Ida Tarbell

Question 6

A muckraker was a reporter who wrote

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about corruption and crime in industry and government.

Question 7

Which of these is an example of muckraking disguised as a work of fiction?

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The Octopus by Frank Norris

Question 8

Which of the following best describes the federal government's response to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?

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Congress passed legislation that regulated the meat-packing industry only after sending a team of government investigators to plants and slaughterhouses.

Question 9

Who first applied the term muckraker to journalism?

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President Theodore Roosevelt

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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