Public response to revelations such as the one in this excerpt led to the establishment of regulations that were eventually enforced by the Food and Drug Administration.
Answer: Option A
<u>Explanation:</u>
Sinclair’s novel The Jungle made a wider spread public outcry against violation of the health and hygiene conditions in meat packaging industry. As a result of this public response government passed the Federal Meat inspection Act 1906.
This Act is enforced by the department of Food and drug Administration. Selling adulterated meat products is made an offence as per the act and this also prescribed the strict sanitary conditions to be complied by the sellers working in the industry.
The connection was that in the 1890 census the frontier was closed, meaning that the U.S. had no open west that we identify in the 21st century with cowboys and sleepy mine towns. This announcement had a great effect on the American psyche as there had always been western land to expand into but now that the frontier was gone there was no more western land to go to. The United States always saw itself as a nation that constantly expanded and as a result looked overseas. American imperialism was a natural continuation of the old tendency of westward expansion that wished to see the U.S. grow and the U.S. needed more land to exploit economically such as Hawaii.