Question

Which of the following best describes a major effect of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle?
It created a controversy that led the Supreme Court to break up a monopoly.
It created a controversy that influenced President Roosevelt to take action.
It exposed the scandal of railroad business practices.
It prompted government reform on a state and city level.

Answer 1

It created a controversy that influenced President Roosevelt to take action.

Sinclair’s exposes of meatpacking conditions (The Jungle, 1906) provoked public outrage and prompted Theodore Roosevelt’s administration to push the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.