DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOURE EATING

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DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOURE EATING?

• ByLizzie and Maggie

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Who was the intended audience of The Jungle?

• Meat packers
• Journalists
• The American public

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• C. The American public

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What did the The Jungle lead to?

• The Pure Food and Drug Act and The Meat
  Inspection Act
• The creation of the World Socialism Movement
• The Immigration Act of 1917

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• A. The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat
  Inspection Act.
• Sinclairs vivid descriptions of the unsanitary
  conditions of meat moved the nation and caused
  acts of requiring labeling of foods and medicines
  and banning the sale of harmful foods.

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What functions did the unions serve for the
average workers?

• They were ineffective
• They helped laborers obtain fair wages
• They were corrupt

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• B. They helped laborers obtain fair wages.

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What were muckrakers?

• Journalists who exposed corruption
• Farmers who raked mud
• Sensationalists who followed movie stars

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• A. Journalists who exposed corruption.
• These journalists were called muckrakers because
  they raked (brought to light) the muck
  (corruption) underlying society.

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Why was the stockyard a popular place for
immigrants to work?

• The wages were fair
• There was always work to do
• The safety of the workers was important

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• B. There was always work to do.

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Why did the immigrants live in separate ethnic
communities?
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• They spoke the same language
• They needed family support
• Both of the above

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• C. They spoke the same language and they needed
  family support.

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How did the refrigerated car change the
slaughterhouse/cattle industry?
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• Less meat was spoiled
• It kept the meat packers comfortable
• The prices were lower on the meat produce

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• A. Less meat was spoiled.

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Which of the following authors described the
horrors of tenement living in their book How the
Other Half Lives?

• Jack London
• Ida Tarbell
• Jacob Riis

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• C. Jacob Riis
• In 1890 Jacob Riis wrote How the Other Half
  Lives, showing the terrible conditions of the
  tenements with words and photographs.

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Which of the following was an effect of the
Tenement-House Act issued by The Board of Health
in 1867?

• It was ineffectual.
• Many slums were closed.
• The impoverished population decreased.

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• B. Many slums were closed.
• There was proven disease infiltration,
  suffocation of children due to lack of
  ventilation, and living quarters were designed to
  fit as many people in one building as possible.