Upton Sinclair

Roosevelt Signs Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act

1906-06-30 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act on June 30, 1906, marking a major achievement in federal regulation of the food industry. The legislation arose from public education and exposés by muckraking journalists like Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins …

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Upton Sinclair Publishes "The Jungle" Exposing Meatpacking Industry Horrors

1906-02-26 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Upton Sinclair published “The Jungle” on February 26, 1906, after serializing it in the Socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason from February to November 1905. The 26-year-old writer spent seven weeks in fall 1904 investigating Chicago’s “Packingtown”—a dense complex of …

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