inspections within the meat industry. The novel written by Upton Sinclair titled The Jungle also supports this claim. Published in 1906‚ the novel described the filthy and ill damped slaughterhouses in Chicago. President Roosevelt read the novel‚ and disgusted‚ passed a bill through congress calling for Meat Inspection Act. Source B also shows the progressives aiming for the Pure Foods and Drug Inspection Act. Again Progressives like Upton Sinclair and those who wrote the Neill – Reynolds Report‚ stated
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Women’s Suffrage By the end of Lincoln’s Reconstruction Era‚ America’s economy doubled in size from the year 1877 to 1893. This period was trademarked the beginning of the industrial revolution. The revolution was sparked by new developments in the railroad industry and the telegraph. Through the massive industrial boom‚ the federal government failed to evolve its economic policies in accordance with its growing wealth‚ allowing corporations to monopolize certain industries. Almost all industries
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1906 pure food and drug act was passed after a book called “the jungle” by Upton Sinclair was published. The Jungle documented the terrible conditions of meat packaging industry‚ then Roosevelt invited the author to his white house. Roosevelt promised to use federal regulations to clean up the sickening conditions of meat packing plants‚ but Roosevelt wasn’t the only one that was sickened by what the author Upton Sinclair wrote in his novel‚ there was a large range of public complaint‚ Roosevelt
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In The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair‚ he use gritty details to describe the work environment. “The pluckers had to pull out this wool with their bare hands‚ till the acid had eaten their figures off.” The workers would slowly lose their figures do to the acid they worked with. The
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their workshops because they knew what they were getting themselves into. In 1906‚ Upton Sinclair‚ a writer during the gilded age‚ wrote a novel‚ The Jungle‚ in which took place inside work factories. He expressed the fact that the work was not easy by stating it was a “fearful kind of work‚ that began at four o’clock in the morning‚ and that wore out the most powerful men in a few years.” (Sinclair‚ 1906) Sinclair pointed out that the work that these men and women were put up to was brutal and that
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Muckraker: a negative‚ nefarious‚ and condescending term coined by President Theodore Roosevelt to insult the few nonconformists who have devoted their lives to exposing the corruption in society. But to some of these martyrs‚ such as Jessica Mitford‚ it is a noble and righteous title to hold. I believe that Mitford was correct and the term muckraker should be a title for these journalists to hold high in today’s society when its definition is someone who “searches out and publicly exposes real of
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Whether or not Congress should strengthen food safety regulations is a controversial topic amongst U.S. citizens. National food-borne illness outbreaks have been a problem since the early 20th century. The Jungle‚ a novel by Upton Sinclair about the unsanitary working conditions of Chicago’s meat-packing industry‚ was published in 1906 and unveiled the issues to the public eye ("Food Safety: Should Congress" 2). This example suggests that this was the spark of taking steps towards food safety in
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The Progressive Era of American was the period of American History‚ beginning in 1901‚ during which many advancements were made for the betterment of society as a whole. A few of these advancements have remained in place to this very day‚ while others have been tossed to the wayside as American Society proceeded to grow and change. Some of the reforms left in place to this very day include the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and many of Roosevelt’s Conservationist policies. It also created the base
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The Regression of Progression The Age of Reform was a wondrous time of progressing in which people improved their overall lifestyles. At the time‚ there were so many things wrong with society; it was pretty damn ridiculous. In America‚ the economy throughout the Progressive Movement‚ which was between 1890’s and the 1920’s‚ was incredibly corrupt. Big businesses turned to extreme measures to make and save more money‚ by making the jobs they offered unbelievably simple and repetitive so as to make
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rerum the Industrial Revolution had a great impact on the people all around the world. The Industrial Revolution began in England in the 18th century and spread throughout the world. Many nations had to respond to the challenges of the Industrial Revolution and the imperialism of the West that had spawned. People had to face the significant consequences that were created through this time in history. The nature of these consequences and their effect on various people throughout the world were very
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