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This muckraker’s shocking 1906 novel exposed the filthy conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking plants.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The title of Sinclair’s book that revealed the dark side of America’s meat industry.
What is The Jungle?
This photographer and journalist exposed the harsh living conditions of the urban poor in New York City.
Who is Jacob Riis?
The name of Riis’s 1890 book that revealed the struggles of immigrant families living in New York City.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
Historians use this negative nickname for businessmen
What are robber barons?
Supporters called these men by this more positive name, seeing them as innovators
Who are captains of industry?
Writers who were known by this nickname for “digging up the dirt” on corruption.
What are muckrakers?
The invention of this technology allowed Riis to photograph dark, cramped tenements.
What is flash photography?
These are reasons that attract people to a new country
What are pull factors?
These are reasons that push people out of their homeland
What are push factors?
She stands in New York longer than anyone, but her daily step count remains 0
Who is the Statue of Liberty?
The main entry point for millions of immigrants arriving on the East Coast in the late 1800s.
What is Ellis Island?
At Ellis Island, inspectors checked this part of a person to decide if they could stay in the United States.
What is their health?
The architect behind The Statue of Liberty also created this famous monument, which can be found in his home land.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This European disaster in the 1840s sent waves of immigrants to the U.S. in search of new life.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
This U.S. president read The Jungle and pushed for food safety laws in response.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
He controlled most of America’s oil through the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
He built a steel empire in Pittsburgh and later gave away much of his fortune to charity.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
He was the railroad and shipping tycoon known for his tough business tactics.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
While Ellis Island welcomed European immigrants to America, this processing center welcomed Asian immigrants to the nation in this city.
What is Angel Island in San Fransisco ?