USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What law or agency did The Jungle inspire?
A
the Meat Inspection Act
B
the Sherman Antitrust Act
C
the Forest Service
D
the National Park Service
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, The Jungle was an exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards. Because of the public response, the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906, and conditions in American slaughterhouses were improved.

Detailed explanation-2: -The uproar over The Jungle revived Wiley’s lobbying efforts in Congress for federal food and drug regulation. Roosevelt signed a law regulating foods and drugs on June 30, 1906, the same day he signed the Meat Inspection Act.

Detailed explanation-3: -Turning Point for Meat Inspection Sinclair urged President Theodore Roosevelt to require federal inspectors in meat-packing houses. The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) became law on the same day in 1906.

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