Question

Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle uncovered the unhealthy conditions inside a meat packing plant. The publication helped fuel demands for reforms in industrial America.
Select all of the legislative actions that occurred in response to the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.


The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified to establish the use of popular elections.



The Fair Labor Standards Act prohibited the employment of children under the age of 16.



The Pure Food and Drug Act required improved food handling processes and procedures.



The Supreme Court declared the Standard Oil company a monopoly and ordered it to be dissolved.



A Grand Jury investigation recommended a budget increase to the New York City Department of Public



The Meat Inspection Act required the inspection of the meat processed and the sanitary practices used.

Answer 1

The correct answers are C) The Pure Food and Drug Act required improved food handling processes and procedures. F) The Meat Inspection Act required the inspection of the meat processed and the sanitary practices used.

The legislative actions that occurred in response to the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle were the following: "The Pure Food and Drug Act required improved food handling processes and procedures" and "The Meat Inspection Act required the inspection of the meat processed and the sanitary practices used."

Upton Sinclair(1878-1968) was the United States author and journalist that wrote the acclaimed book "The Jungle," published in 1906. In that book, Sinclair published his investigation about the labor conditions in the meatpacking industries in Chicago and other industrial cities in America. He wrote about the unhealthy conditions lived by the workers and many immigrants that had the necessity to accept those low paid jobs in order to support their families.

The book created a negative impact on American citizens and the legislative actions that occurred in response to the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle were that the Pure Food and Drug Act required improved food handling processes and procedures and that the Meat Inspection Act required the inspection of the meat processed and the sanitary practices used.