A nineteen-part magazine series that ran from 1902 to 1904 and appeared as a book in 1904 traced how one refining company used secret railroad rebates and pressure on rivals to take over an industry. Which work was it?

An 1890 book combined reporting with flash photographs of dark, crowded rooms and airless shafts in New York's tenement districts. Which work was it?

A 1904 book collected a magazine series showing how bosses, contractors and police divided the profits of city government in several American cities. Which work was it?

A 1906 book by a socialist writer described boys picking slate in coal breakers and children tending machines in textile mills, and pressed for laws to stop it. Which work was it?

A journalist traveled through the South and the North reporting on segregation, disfranchisement and racial violence, and published his findings in 1908 as an account of Black citizenship in American democracy. Which work was it?

In 1895 Ida B. Wells published a pamphlet compiling three years of cases, each set out with names, dates and places. Which work was it?

Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906) followed a Lithuanian immigrant family. What did the book document?

Ida B. Wells set out case after case with names, dates and places in Southern Horrors (1892), drawing much of her evidence from white southern newspapers. What did the pamphlet document?

Frank Norris's 1901 novel The Octopus followed wheat ranchers in California's San Joaquin Valley. What did it depict?

Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens and Ray Stannard Baker all wrote their early exposés for one magazine, which they left in 1906 to take over The American Magazine. Which magazine was it?

Lincoln Steffens's October 1902 article, often called the first muckraking article, described how a prosecutor was breaking up the bribery ring that ran one city's government. Which city was it?

In May 1892 Ida B. Wells published an editorial in the Memphis newspaper she co-owned, the Free Speech. What happened while she was away in the North?

Frank Norris's 1901 novel The Octopus drew on an 1880 shootout over land titles in California's San Joaquin Valley that left seven people dead. Which event was that?

Ray Stannard Baker began the reporting behind his 1908 book after days of racial violence in a southern city in September 1906. Which city was it?

In 1904 Upton Sinclair spent about seven weeks in Chicago gathering the material for his next novel. How did he get it?

Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel was written to show what immigrant laborers endured, but readers fastened instead on what was going into the meat. Which two laws did Congress pass that same year?

Before Congress acted on the Chicago packinghouses in 1906, Theodore Roosevelt wanted Upton Sinclair's charges tested. What did he do?

Jacob Riis's 1890 book on New York's tenements helped push Governor Theodore Roosevelt to appoint a tenement house commission. Which law followed, requiring light, ventilation, indoor toilets and fire safeguards?

Jacob Riis attacked the police-station lodging rooms where homeless New Yorkers slept in filth on bare planks. What did Theodore Roosevelt do about them while he headed the city's police board?

Ida Tarbell's series showed that one refiner had taken secret cash refunds on its freight for years, and drawbacks on rivals' shipments as well. Which 1903 federal law made such railroad rebates illegal?

Seven years after Ida Tarbell's history of it appeared, the company she had investigated lost its case in the Supreme Court. What did the Court order in 1911?

Ida Tarbell and Frank Norris both wrote about railroads favoring some shippers over others. What did the Hepburn Act of 1906 do about that?

John Spargo's 1906 book on child labor fed a campaign that reached Congress a decade later. Which 1916 law barred goods made by child labor from interstate commerce?

The 1916 federal child labor law that answered the abuses John Spargo documented lasted barely two years. What ended it?

Ida B. Wells spent decades pressing for a federal law against the violence her pamphlets recorded. What became of the Dyer bill, the anti-lynching measure that got furthest?

Upton Sinclair later said of his 1906 novel, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." What was he describing?

In his 1890 book Jacob Riis wrote, "The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate of those who were underneath." Whom did he mean by the half on top?

Lincoln Steffens wrote in his 1904 book, "The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people." What was he arguing?

Ida B. Wells wrote, "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." Which method did she follow from that belief?

In an address on April 14, 1906 Theodore Roosevelt said, "The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck." What was his point?