... . [1873 Comstock Law prevented conception education], middle-class Americans had limited family size due to abstinence, withdrawal, abortion, primitive birth control devices. Still ignorance widespread. She was persecuted to separating sex from procreation in her magazine The Woman Rebel and Family Limitation Jacob Ris- How the Other Half Lives (1890) horrified reformers. Documented what overcrowded, dirty housing was really like. Wanted ... ...

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... was best known for his novel, The Jungle, which he wrote in 1906. In the novel, Sinclair 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 ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... for literature and school to enter New York City College at the age of fourteen, and used his writing skills to fund his college education. He did this by writing stories for newspapers and magazines, and by the age of seventeen Sinclair had earned enough money to live on his own while supplying his parents with a regular income. Sinclair soon married ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... going to be the ones who defeated the odds that were up against them. They were going to rise on top of this whole mess and live to tell the stories of the way it used to be. Each of them not realizing what they were in for, not knowing what the jungle had up its sleeve. "Now suddenly it had ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School