WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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changes in the meatpacking industry with the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act
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federal laws designed to regulate the railroad companies
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laws prohibiting the manufacture, distribution, or sale of alcoholic beverages
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the creation of new national parks to save wilderness areas for future generations
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Detailed explanation-1: -Roosevelt signed a law regulating foods and drugs on June 30, 1906, the same day he signed the Meat Inspection Act. The Pure Food and Drug Act regulated food additives and prohibited misleading labeling of food and drugs. This law led to the formation of the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Detailed explanation-2: -"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-3: -After reading Lewis’s novel, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered an investigation. The result, he said, was “hideous” and he threatened to publish the entire “sickening report” if Congress did not act. Meat sales plummeted in the United States and Europe.
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.