History of the United States II / Unit 6 USH2 0783 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Jungle
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The idea
Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle followed a Lithuanian immigrant family working in Chicago's stockyards and exposed the meatpacking industry.
In practice
The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, both passed in nineteen oh six.
Where people slip
Roosevelt had a presidential commission investigate, and it confirmed the conditions Sinclair described.
Your place on the trail
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