... in the series sold over 500,000 copies. Twenty years pass in Sinclair's life without much happening, until his second wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, died on April 26th 1961 from depression. Not long after that, Sinclair married his third wife, Mary Elizabeth Willis, six months after the passing of his second wife. Seven years later, Upton Sinclair died on December 18th ... 's attention, and wondering what exactly is going to happen next. Sinclair had the ability to write a novel with accurate detail while providing true facts that caused the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and the Meat Inspe...

• Word Count: 1827
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• Grade Level: High School

... uncovered unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry and rallied American against the horror stories and demanded change. Directly after the publishing of The Jungle, the Pure Food and Drug Act established the Food and Drug Administration, which tested and approved drugs before they went on the market for consumers. Ida Tarbell also brought about change, she wrote History of Standard Oil Company ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... "real world" is extraordinary for a literary work. Sinclair's 1906 landmark novel is credited with awakening the widespread public fury that led to the rapid passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), a watershed in consumer protection and government legislation (Norton)". Sinclair traveled to the stockyards of Chicago in winter of 1904, to investigate the conditions of the meat packing industry ... the plight of the workers in the packing yards of Chicago. Due to the graphic nature of this book, it instigated many reforms, most notably the immediate Pure Food and Drug Acts of 1906. ...

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... meatpacking industry, and living/working conditions for the poor was a big part of a mass movement of the time period that led to significant changes such as The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Through his exploitation of major issues occurring in the progressive industrialized America, Sinclair helped make breakthrough changes to both health and society....

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... , tale of horrors of meatpacking industry. However, failed to convert readers to Socialism. Instead, TR ordered study of meatpacking industry= Meat Inspection Act of 1906. Same day Pure Food and Drug Act passed Newlands Act- Natl Reclamation Act set aside proceeds from sale of public land to pay for irrigation projects, limited water in the West. Gifford Pinchot- chair of National ... ...

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... from different parts of the world. Political conditions were not too hot during this period, for immigrants faced a long painful struggle to stay alive in the new world. They faced depression, hunger, sanitation problems, dangerous job, daily hazards, and even the risk of losing their job each and every day. Immigrants at this time really had no hand in voting or ... ...

• Word Count: 1951
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• Grade Level: High School

... -it would never be!" (The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, 163) Another character that finds the evils of capitalism is Marija, who is forced to rectify to herself, a life of prostitution and drug use caused by capitalism. When she first tries to get a job in the meat plants, she needs to bribe the forewomen in order to get the job. While Marija is ... ...

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