The Jungle

Examples of The Jungle in the following topics:

• Features of Progressivism

  • The Progressive Era was a time of great political, social and economic reform for the United States.
  • One of the main political goals of the Progressive Movement was to expose corruption within the United States government.
  • One of the most notable examples of this literature is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, published in 1906 and offering a disturbing portrayal of the meatpacking industry in the U.S.
  • The result was a rapid growth of the educated middle class—typically the grass roots supporters of Progressive measures.
  • The Eighteenth Amendment banned the manufacturing, sale and transport of alcohol.

• Social Justice

  • Historians debate the exact contours of the "Progressive Era", but this term generally refers to the period from the 1890s to the period after World War I.
  • Emerging at the end of the nineteenth century, progressive reformers established much of the tone of American politics throughout the first half of the century.
  • For progressive reformers, the Constitution represented a loose guideline of political governance, rather than a strict authority on the political development of the United States or the scope of federal power.
  • In The Jungle (1906), socialist Upton Sinclair repelled readers with descriptions of Chicago's meatpacking plants, prompting many Americans to rally behind the federally-mandated remedial food safety legislation passed under Roosevelt's administration.
  • In Dynamic Sociology (1883), Lester Frank Ward laid out the philosophical foundations of the Progressive movement and attacked the laissez-faire policies advocated by Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner, while Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) attacked the "conspicuous consumption" of the wealthy.

• The Square Deal

  • The Hepburn Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum railroad rates and stop the practice of giving out free passes to friends of the railway interests.
  • The settlement was an important step in the Progressive era reforms of the decade that followed.
  • Roosevelt responded to public anger over the abuses in the food packing industry by pushing Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 were both widely accredited to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, which revealed the horrific and unsanitary processes of meat production.
  • He worked with all the major figures of the movement, especially his chief advisor on the matter, Gifford Pinchot.

• The Progressive Era

  • The Progressive Era was a period of social activism and political reform in the United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s.
  • The main statutes are the Sherman Act 1890, the Clayton Act 1914 and the Federal Trade Commission Act 1914.
  • In academic fields the day of the amateur author gave way to the research professor who published in the new scholarly journals and presses.
  • In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
  • (1927) and The Flivver King (1937) describe the working conditions of the coal, oil and auto industries at the time.

• The Muckrakers

  • Samuel Hopkins Adams in 1905 showed the fraud involved in many patent medicines, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) was a novel that gave a horrid portrayal of how meat was packed, and David Graham Phillips unleashed a blistering indictment of the U.S.
  • Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906, which revealed conditions in the meat packing industry in the United States and was a major factor in the establishment of the Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • Fremont Older (1856–1935) - wrote on San Francisco corruption and on the case of Tom Mooney Jacob Riis (1849–1914) - How the Other Half Lives, the slums Charles Edward Russell (1860–1941) — investigated Beef Trust, Georgia's prison Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) — The Jungle (1906), U.S. meat-packing industry, and the books in the "Dead Hand" series that critique the institutions (journalism, education, etc.) that could but did not prevent these abuses.
  • "The effect on the soul of the nation was profound.
  • Explain the meaning of the term "Muckrakers" in the context of the Progressive Era.

• Hispanics in WWII

  • On March 18, 1945, the regiment was sent to the District of Mannheim and assigned to military occupation duties after the end of the war.
  • These Hispanic and non-Hispanic soldiers endured the 12-day, 85-mile (137 km) Bataan Death March from Bataan to the Japanese prison camps, where they were force-marched in scorching heat through the Philippine jungle.
  • Early in the war, the 158th, nicknamed the "Bushmasters," had been deployed to protect the Panama Canal and had completed jungle training.
  • The unit later fought the Japanese in the New Guinea area in heavy combat and was involved in the liberation of the Philippine Islands.
  • With the creation of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), predecessor of the Women's Army Corps (WAC), and the U.S.

• Political Critiques of the New Deal

  • The League gathered Republicans, Democrats, and influential business leaders who opposed the New Deal's premise that the government not only could but should intervene in the economy.  
  • The League engaged in campaigns, in which it aimed to educate the public about the legislative process.
  • Known as the Conservative Coalition (at the time, the term "conservative" referred to the opponents of the New Deal and did not imply any specific party affiliation), it initiated a conservative alliance that, with modifications, shaped Congress until the 1960s.
  • When Norman Thomas run as the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America in the 1932 election, his platform reminded more of the later New Deal agenda than the New Deal plan announced at the time by presidential candidate Roosevelt.
  • While not really an opponent of Roosevelt, a socialist writer Upton Sinclair (known for his immensely influential 1906 novel The Jungle) popularized a program known as End Poverty in California (EPIC) that Roosevelt eventually considered to be too radical .

• Cheap Amusements

  • The American Gilded Age was, in fact, the Golden Age of amusement parks that reigned until the late 1920s.
  • The 1920s saw the development of many innovations in terms of the roller coaster, encouraging extreme drops and speeds to thrill the riders.
  • Dime museums were institutions that were briefly popular at the end of the 19th century in the United States.
  • For many years in the basement of the Playland Arcade in Times Square in New York City, Hubert's Museum featured acts such as the sword swallower, Lady Estelene, Congo The Jungle Creep, a flea circus, a half-man half-woman, and magicians such as Earl "Presto" Johnson.
  • Analyze amusements and entertainments from the Gilded Age through the end of the 1930s

• Elements of Reform

  • Three practices - the referendum, the initiative, and the recall - were created.
  • The initiative permitted the voters to petition and force the legislature to vote on a certain bill.
  • Samuel Hopkins Adams in 1905 showed the fraud involved in many patent medicines, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) was a novel that gave a horrid portrayal of how meat was packed, and David Graham Phillips unleashed a blistering indictment of the U.S.
  • The Progressives worked hard to reform and modernize the schools at the local level.
  • The heyday of the amateur expert gave way to the research professor who published in the new scholarly journals and presses.

• Congress of the Confederation

  • The Congress of the Confederation was the governing body of the United States from 1781 to 1789.
  • The Congress of the Confederation was the governing body of the United States of America, in force from March 1, 1781, to March 4, 1789.
  • The Congress of the Confederation opened in the final stages of the American Revolution.
  • Combat in the Revolution ended in October 1781 with the surrender of the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
  • The membership of the Second Continental Congress automatically carried over to the Congress of the Confederation when the latter was created through the ratification of the Articles of Confederation.