The passage of the Meat Inspection Act in 1906 was most directly caused by
A) Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
B) Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
C) Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives.
D) Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor.

Respuesta :

A) Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

The correct answer is A) Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle


“The Jungle” was a book written by Upton Sinclair that exposed the work conditions of the meat-packing industry. He made a gross description of diseased, rotten and contaminated meat. He described horrible facts, like how workers would process dead, injured and diseased animals and how pork fat and beef would be canned and labeled as “potted chicken”. The book shocked the public and led to the pass of the Meat Inspection Act.