THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle.”
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Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring.”
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Jacob Riis’ “How the Other Half Lives.”
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Helen Hunt Jackson’s “A Century of Dishonor.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -In fact, the nauseating condition of the meat-packing industry that Upton Sinclair captured in The Jungle was the final precipitating force behind both a meat inspection law and a comprehensive food and drug law.
Detailed explanation-2: -Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws. Before the turn of the 20th century, a major reform movement had emerged in the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -"The Jungle” was influential in obtaining passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. Sinclair’s interests ranged over a wide variety of topics, in his many books and articles. He would receive a Pulitzer Prize for a later novel about Hitler’s rise to power.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.