Investigative Journalists
Works of Art
Places in the Progressive Era
Unsanitary & Unsafe
Throwback
100

A journalist who sought to expose corruption, scandal, and the like in government and politics.

Who is a muckraker

100

Upton Sinclair's famous book

What is "The Jungle"

100

This is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access.

What is a tenement

100

This was the area of Manhattan where many immigrants came to resident 

What is the Lower East Side

100

A reason that attracts people to move to a new location, such as a country or region.

What is a pull factor

200

This person exposed child labor through photography

Who is Lewis Hines

200

Jacob Riis's famous book

What is "How the Other Half Lives"

200

The floor number where the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory occurred on

What is the 8th floor

200

Even though there was no concrete cause, this was the suspected cause of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

What is a cigarette

200

Many immigrants from Asia arrived through this port

What is Angel Island

300

Upton Sinclair wrote this famous book to expose the conditions of the Meatpacking Industry

What is the Jungle

300

The tool in which Lewis Hines and Jacob Riis documented working and living conditions

What is the camera

300

Lured by the promise of prosperity, many rural families and immigrants worldwide arrived in the cities to work in...

What are factories 

300

These were the names of the bathrooms outside of the lower east side tenements

What are outhouses

300

This is also known as an anti-immigrant attitude

What is nativism

400

He photographed living conditions in the Lower East Side tenements

Who is Jacob Riis

400

He took this photo: 

Who was Lewis Hines

400

The name of the city where the meatpacking industry took place

What is Chicago, Illinois

400

The name of this job was one in which people carried two-hundred-pound quarters (of meat) into refrigerator cars, which began at four o’clock in the morning and wore out the most powerful men in a few years.    

Who is a beef lugger

400

This legal document gives the inventor the right to prevent others from making, using, selling, or importing their invention for a set period of time.

What is a patent

500

President Theodore Roosevelt addressed the meat industry by pushing for and signing the...

What was the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act of 1906:

500

The name of this picture, taken by Jacob Riis is...

What is "five cents a spot"

500

This was the name of the building where the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire occurred

What is the Asch Building

500

This chemical agent was often added to meat as a preservative due to its ability to inhibit the growth of bacteria, yeast, and mold

What is borax

500

Between 1890-1920 was a period in the United States during the early 20th century of widespread social activism and political reform across the country

What is the Progressive Era

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