THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives
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Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities
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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
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Frank Norris’s The Octopus
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Detailed explanation-1: -Photograph of meat inspectors looking at animal carcasses. In response to Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act of 1906.
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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Upton Sinclair was a famous novelist and social crusader from California, who pioneered the kind of journalism known as “muckraking.” His best-known novel was “The Jungle” which was an expose of the appalling and unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Jungle, published in 1906, exposed the harsh conditions of the meatpacking industry in Chicago and other similar industrial cities. Public pressure during the aftermath of the book’s publication led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act, which helps ensure that meat is packaged under sanitary conditions.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.