Show:
Famous Muckrakers
Muckraker Works and Magazines
Muckraker History
For/Against
Progressivism
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
The banning of Alcohol
What is Prohibition
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
The most Progressive Governor
Who was Lafollette
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 _______ century
What is "beginning of the 20th"
300
For: Writers helped to pass laws that _______ society A. bettered B. ate C. launched a nuclear warhead at
What is A. bettered
300
Bill created by a citizen's petition
What is and initiative
400
Wrote about cities and their shame
Who is Lincoln Steffens
400
Famous Muckraker Magazine
What is McClures
400
Muckrakers often wrote about
societal problems and/or corruption
400
Against: Some muckraker wrote about _______ which did not represent all conditions acurately
What are isolated incidences
400
enabled voters to remove politicians from office
What is a recall
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
the most Progressive President
Who was T. Roosevelt
500
For: Muckraking showed the American people firsthand the ________ the was occuring within their country
What is plight, corruption any other synonym
500
The leader of the Socialist Party
Who is Eugene Debs