THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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The Sherman Anti Trust Act
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The Pure Food and Drug Act
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The Clayton Anti Trust Act
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The Rockefeller Anti Trust Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -A positive outcome of this episode was that it drove the passage and enactment of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C) of 1938, which superseded the Pure Food and Drugs Act.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation’s first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Detailed explanation-3: -Journalist Upton Sinclair exposed the unsanitary conditions of the stockyards, slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants in his novel “The Jungle.” As a result, President Theodore Roosevelt signed into law the Pure Food and Drug Act, requiring food inspection and labeling.
Detailed explanation-4: -Since 1879, nearly 100 bills had been introduced in Congress to regulate food and drugs; on 30 June 1906 President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, known simply as the Wiley Act, a pillar of the Progressive era.
Detailed explanation-5: -President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drug Act into law the next day.