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Title: The jungle By: Upton Sinclair


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The jungle By Upton Sinclair
  • By Karen Castillo

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Excerpt from The Jungle
  • Here was a population, low-class and mostly
    foreign, hanging always on the verge of
    starvation, and dependent for its opportunities
    of life upon the whim of men every bit as brutal
    and unscrupulous as the old-time slave drivers
    under such circumstances immorality was exactly
    as inevitable, and as prevalent, as it was under
    the system of chattel slavery. Things that were
    quite unspeakable went on there in the packing
    houses all the time, and were taken for granted
    by everybody only they did not show, as in the
    old slavery times, because there was no
    difference in color between master and slave.
  • Onas working conditions she is forced to work
    under Miss Henderson, who runs a prostitution
    ring, and most of her coworkers are prostitutes.
    Sinclair presents these conditions as a horrible
    situation for the modest, moral

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Would I trust the meat industry in 1906.
  • I wouldn't trust the meat in groceries in the
    progressive era because the way they have the
    environment and how they use the old nasty meat
    to sell.

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What did Theodore Roosevelt say about The Jungle?
  • At first he didn't believe the Jungle because
    Sinclair was a socialist.
  • But after conducting his own investigations he
    had similar results as Sinclair
  • Theodore Roosevelt passed the pure food ad drug
    act

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The meat packing industry in The years leading
to 1906
Upton sinclair the jungle
Consumer confidence in Beef
Legislation specifically Related to the meat
Packing industry
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  • If people like upon Sinclair never spoke up then
    more people would have died by eating the food or
    by working in that environment.
  • As a society we should point out injustice and
    fight it, Like people in china still use little
    kids to work like grown ups and they shouldn't
    have to.
  • Things I would do to make a difference is to help
    kids in other countries that are still working
    and not going to school.
  • Changes that fast food industries have done are
    they now have healthy food like salads on their
    menu and they have other side instead of french
    fries.

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Poverty
  • People who lived in poverty were usually the ones
    that had to send their children to work and also
    they had to work but they paid so little for so
    much work that they never got out of poverty.

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Corruption
  • Corruption in that time was that the meat packing
    plants and all other food factories didnt have
    restrictions and did what ever they wanted and
    didnt care for the workers or customers just the
    money

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Muckraking
  • Muckraking was that people dug up all the bad
    things that food factories did to the workers and
    how they had their working environments.

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Journalist
  • Wrote about the food industry and how it was
    corrupt.

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Wage slavery
  • Wage slavery was when they worked their workers
    so much and they didn't get paid enough

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Upton sinclair
  • What the writer of the jungle that exposed the
    truth of the food factories.

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Meat inspection act
  • requires USDA to inspect all cattle, sheep,
    goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed
    into products for human consumption

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Pure food and drug act
  • Factories had to have good real food and real
    drugs that weren't useless

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Food and drug administration
  • Government agency of the United States Department
    of Health and Human Services and is responsible
    for regulating and supervising the safety of
    foods, tobacco products, dietary supplements,
    Medication drugs, vaccines,

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Theodore roosevelt
  • Theodore Roosevelt didn't believe in Sinclair
    book because he was a socialist,
  • Roosevelt put on his own investigation and found
    the same information Sinclair found.

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socialism
  • refers to various theories of economic
    organization advocating public or direct worker
    ownership and administration of the means of
    production and allocation of resources,

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Excerpt 2
  • They put him in a place where the snow could not
    beat in, where the cold could not eat through his
    bones they brought him food and drinkwhy, in
    the name of heaven, if they must punish him, did
    they not put his family in jail and leave him
    outsidewhy could they find no better way to
    punish him than to leave three weak women and six
    helpless children to starve and freeze?
  • This quote from Chapter 16 explains Jurgiss
    mindset when he is sent to prison after attacking
    Phil Connor.being in prison is actually an
    environment far preferable to the cruel, filthy
    world of Packingtown. There he received shelter
    and food without having to do anything he
    believes that his family members are the real
    prisoners, as, without his support, they now face
    starvation and eviction.

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