Progressive Era 24-25

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In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

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Unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry

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What did the Meat Inspection Act accomplish?

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cleaned up the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.

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Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

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Upton Sinclair

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What is the purpose of this political cartoon?

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To show that Theodore Roosevelt was going to clean up the meatpacking industry.

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Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to expose the negative effects of industrialization were known as

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muckrakers

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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is credited with exposing the unsanitary conditions in the food industry and helping to pass the

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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Who wrote about and exposed the corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

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Ida Tarbell

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Which agency did the federal government establish to protect consumer’s safety as a response to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?

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Pure Food and Drug Administration

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What book did Jacob Riis write? Options: Up From Slavery, The Jungle, Shame of the Cities, How the Other Half Lives

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How the Other Half Lives

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During the Progressive Era, what problem was John Spargo exposing?

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child labor