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Famous Muckrakers
Muckraker Works and Magazines
Muckraker History
For/Against
I Will Own You in Trivial Pursuit
100
Wrote about Chicago's Meat Packing Industry
Who is Upton Sinclair
100
Novel thats graphic details contibuted to the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.
What is The Jungle
100
This term was first coined by Teddy Roosevelt (-1million points if incorrect)
What is Muckraker
100
Reason For: Muckraking brought about social ______
What is reform
100
All swans in England
Are property of the Queen, therefore its is illegal to kill one
200
Born in Pa, her father's oil company was bankrupted by Rockefeller leading to her literary revenge
Who is Ida Tarbell
200
Serialized book about Rockefeller's use of Horizontal Intergration
What is The History of the Standard Oil Company
200
Muckraking reached its peak during
What is the Gilded Age
200
Reason Against: Newspapers exploited ________ to sell issues
What is tragedy/corruption
200
Giraffes have this many vertebre in their necks
What is 7 (the same as humans)
300
Exposed the lives of the other two quarters
Who is Jacob Riis
300
Written by Lincoln Steffens, the book also serialized in McClure's was written about corruption in major US cities
What is The Shame of the Cities
300
The Gilded Age occured around the _______ of the century
What is Texa$
300
For: Writers helped to pass laws that _______ society A. bettered B. ate C. launched a nuclear warhead at
What is A. bettered
300
The Dryest place on Earth
What is Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which has no recorded rainfall in its history
400
Wrote about cities and their shame
Who is Lincoln Steffens
400
Famous Muckraker Magazine
What is Cosmo Girl
400
Muckrakers often wrote about
What is plight, tragedy or any synonym for either
400
Against: Some muckraker wrote about _______ which did not represent all conditions acurately
What are isolated incidences
400
20% of all automobile accidents in Sweden
What is involve a moose
500
Writer of The Great American Fraud, a serialized work exposing the decite and dangers of the patent medicine industry
Who is Samuel Hopkins Adams
500
Photojournalistic work exposing the living conditions of the lower class
What is How the Other Half Lives
500
If Terak picked this question everyone gets an extra 100 points
What is except him
500
For: Muckraking showed the American people firsthand the ________ the was occuring within their country
What is plight, corruption any other synonym
500
In Chester, England it is legal to
What is shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow aslong as its is within the city walls before sunrise