Muckrakers
Name a problem Muckrakers fixed
What are granting safer working conditions, exposing big business, exposing abuse of women in insane asylums, and bringing to light the problems of corrupt leaders
Name New York‘s Democratic political machine that used machine politics to organize voters and cadiadates
What is Tammany Hall
Name a way women were treated poorly in insane asylums
What is electroshock therapy, abusive staff, and unnecessary surgeries
Name the role of Political Bosses
What is controlling jobs, influencing courts and city agencies, and gathering voters and influencing them to vote certain ways
Name the most progressive groups of people in the progressive era
Who are muckrakers, protesters, and citizens
Name the ways Nellie Bly exposed the insane asylums
What is faking her identity to get into an asylum, wrote her novel Ten Days in a Madhouse, and exposed the ways they abused the women by having them over consume opium, bathe in unsanitary freezing water, and experience unneeded surgeries.
Name the ways that Boss Tweed helped the people
What is proving the poor and immigrants with resources, giving job security, and giving support for education
Name a way Nellie Bly exposed asylums
What is writing ten days in a madhouse, exposing the over consumption of opium, exposing bathing conditions, and lying about her identity to get into an asylum
What is giving money to schools, hospitals, and orphanages, as well as building parks and swerve systems
Name the book that exposed Tammany Hall and its corruption in making the courthouse
What is The Shame of the Cities
Name they ways in which Lewis Hine helped child laborers
What is exposing poor working conditions by taking photographs and taking first hand interviews of the child laborers
Name the ways Boss Tweed abused his power
What is using graft, exploiting immigrants for votes and support, corrupting the city by collecting more funds than needed, and leading the Tweed Ring
Name the main places women worked in during this time period?
What are textile mills, tobacco factories, and the garment industry
Name the ways in which political machines committed fraud
What is making voters use fake names to vote with, voting multiple times, and using graft to elect leaders that would not expose the political bosses
Name the Muckraker that exposed Standard Oil and Rockefeller‘s ruthless methods
Who is Ida Tarbell
What are writing about troubles in big cities, middle class men, how the Southern Pacific Railroad had power over farmers, the unsanitary food and drug conditions, and the struggles of minorities
Name the scandal that charged the city of New York $13million for a construction job that would have cost only $3million and was comprised of multiple corrupt politicians
What is the Tweed Ring Scandal
Name an association that helped women in the workplace by creating better conditions for women and children in the textile industry
What is the International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Name the ways that political bosses influenced jobs
What is patronage and giving government jobs to those who would elect candidates who were in favor of the political bosses
Name Lewis Hine’s technique for making the children in his pictures really be seen
What is focusing in on the children as the subject of the photograph and slightly blurring the background to make the children pop
Name the main goals of Muckrakers
What are better living and working conditions, better treatment of women and minorities, and end child labor
Name the way Boss Tweed was found after he fled the U.S.
What is being recognized from Thomas Nast’s drawings while he was in Spain
Name the ways in which Mother Jones helped women in the workforce
What is speaking out against poor conditions of women and children in the textile and garment industry
Name the ways big businesses helped political parties and politicians
What is making donations to show support of the politicians
Many times women were not published as journalism was a male-dominated field