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The Muckrakers — Quiz

Question 3 • US History

Ida B. Wells’s book The Red Record

Answer
A
exposed the terrible work conditions of the meat-packing industry.
B
exposed the corruption of the Standard Oil monopoly.
C
exposed the corrupt practices of the railroad industry.
D
exposed the horrors of lynching in America.

Explanation

Ida B. Wells’s The Red Record documented lynching in the United States and challenged the false claims used to justify it. It exposed the scale and horrors of racial violence, not corruption in oil or railroads or conditions in meat-packing plants. The correct choice is D, “exposed the horrors of lynching in America.”

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