USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“The Jungle” was a book about ____
A
the meat packing industry.
B
a talking gorilla.
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, 1906 | U.S. Capitol-Visitor Center. Commissioned by a socialist newspaper to investigate working conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry, journalist Upton Sinclair spent seven weeks among immigrant workers in packing plants.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Jungle, novel by Upton Sinclair, published serially in 1905 and as a single-volume book in 1906. The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, The Jungle was an exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -by Upton Sinclair The Jungle was banned in Yugoslavia in 1929 due to its socialist views, burned in Nazi fires, banned again in 1956 in Germany because it harmed communist values and banned in 1985 in South Korea.

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