The Muckrakers Flashcards
Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives shocked the American public with its use of
powerful photographs depicting conditions in city slums
Which of the following best describes Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and Frank Norris’s impact on journalism?
They were among the first to publicize immoral, corrupt practices of large industries
A muckraker was a reporter who wrote
about corruption and crime in industry and government
Look at the graphic.
Which phrase best fits the last box?
The public began to take action by setting up committees and supporting reform candidates
Which of the following was an unintended result of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?
Ida B. Wells’s book The Red Record
exposed the horrors of lynching in America
Which of these writers helped to bring about the break up of the Standard Oil monopoly?
Ida Tarbell
Which aspect of Upton Sinclair‘s life best explains his reasons for writing The Jungle?
his socialist politics
In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis exposed
the harsh living conditions in New York City slums
Which of these was a corrupt business practice that Frank Norris exposed in The Octopus?
railroad companies selling land to farmers and secretly keeping legal ownership of the land
