Muckrakers

Which term may be defined as the rewarding of jobs to local supporters, as opposed to certification?

• favorites

• public interest

• patronage

• initiative

Which muckraker wrote History of the Standard Oil Company, in 1902, exposing Rockefeller’s rise that was based on ruthless business practices?

• Ida B. Wells

• Ida Tarbell

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What muckraker wrote The Jungle, which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry?

• Upton Sinclair

• Lincoln Steffens

• Jacob Riis

• Frank Norris

What influential lady was co-founder of Hull House, which was an all-purpose community center for poor immigrant people living in crowded city neighborhoods?

• Jane Addams

• Ida Tarbell

• Frances Willard

• Susan B Anthony

Nickname for journalists who exposed corruption and deficits of urban America:

• Gump Mushers

• Muckrakers

• Scalawags

• Dirt Diggers

Jacob Riis used a different medium to demonstrate the way corporate greed led to the impoverishment of American city-life.

His book, How the Other Half Lives, used __________________ to expose urban living conditions.

• Music

• Audio Recordings

• Paintings

• Photographs

Which two federal acts were passed as a result of the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?

• Anti Sherman Act & Clayton AntiTrust Act

• Federal Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food and Drug Act

• Federal Meatpacking Sanitation & Holy Foods Act

• 16th & 17th amendments

What term was given to those Republicans that supported patronage, also known as the spoils-system?

• Halfbreeds

• Mugwumps

• Stalwarts

• Oompa Loompas

Who invented the Cotton Gin, a device that removed seeds from cotton?

• George Harrison

• Eli Whitney

• Thomas Singleton

• Matthew Pershing

What did the Bessemer Process achieve?

• Created electric power to streetcars.

• Allowed meat to be processed and refrigerated.

• More efficiently converted iron to steel.

• Allowed planes to travel faster and farther distances.