To increase the power of the ICC, Roosevelt passed the Hepburn Act of 1906, and for the first time, a government commission could investigate private business records and set rates. When Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle was published, reformers took another look at the meatpacking industry. The novel's startling accounts of filthy conditions in the meatpacking plants resulted in the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act and a Meat Inspection Act...
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The novel's startling accounts of filthy conditions in the meatpacking plants resulted in the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act and a Meat Inspection Act. The progressives used the power of the federal government to help reform go from a local to a national level. The progressive movement left the nation's federal government with a stronger hold on "bad" businesses...
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