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.

Question 1 options:

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

Answer:

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

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

Explanation:

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. an American progressive writer whose book "The Jungle" where he presented the harsh conditions of the people. He also exposed the unsatisfactory and unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry in Chicago in 1906.

Considered a muckraker, his book exposes the corruption and malpractices of the government in this case, the meatpacking industry. The book brought so much uproar that it led to the implementation of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in the year 1906. These two Acts were thus, the result of Sinclair's novel "The Jungle".