Problems at the Turn of the Century

Question 1

muckrakers

Answer 1

journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life

Question 2

ubranzitation

Answer 2

the growth of cities

Question 3

the Jungle

Answer 3

a book about the sickening conditions in the meatpacking industry

Question 4

Tammany Hall

Answer 4

a New York political machine led by Boss Tweed

Question 5

patronage

Answer 5

giving government jobs to friends and supporters

Question 6

Pendelton Act

Answer 6

legislation that set guidelines for hiring nonmilitary government workers

Question 7

civil service

Answer 7

nonmilitary government workers

Question 8

temperance movement

Answer 8

groups calling for moderation in drinking habits

Question 9

tenements

Answer 9

very cramped apartments in cities

Question 10

political machine

Answer 10

organizations of full-time politicians whose main goal was to get and keep political power and the money and influence that came with it

Question 11

Boss Tweed

Answer 11

a corrupt democratic official in New York City during the 1870s

Question 12

Jacob Riis

Answer 12

A muckraker in New York city whose book, How the Other Half Lives, showed the condition of New York’s poor