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NATIONAL HISTORY DAY 2016
Reform Begins in the
United States
Rona Johnson, Rocky Mountain Middle School, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Grade Level: 6–8
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Objectives:
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to:
• Who led the movement for food regulations?
• What led to the creation of the Food and Drug
Administration in 1906?
• What impact can be seen today due to this
reform movement?
Historical Context:
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Keacl what World Resort Ada say
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The ills wore In Ucrs opening upon galleries His cell was about
five feet by seven in size with a stone floor and a heavy wooden bend
built Into It There was no window the only light c unr from windows
near the roof at one end of the court outside There were two bunks
one above the other each with a straw mattress and a pair of gray
blankets tho latter stilt as hoards with filth nndallro with fleas bed- ¬
bugs and lice When Jurgls lifted Uie mattress he discovered htnthIt a layer of scurrying roaches almost as badly frlghtemd as hint eft
with tho addition of a
Hero they brought him more duffers and dope
howl of soup PROM TIm JUNGLE
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UPTON SINCLAIR
HORRORS OF THE CELLSIN POLICE STATIONS
BEEF TRUST PROBED
The fourth article In tho series being written by Mr SlnclUr orclu j
lively for Tho Evening World will be published next Monday
WORKMANS WIFE TELLS
VILLAINY OF FOREMAN
ono the wife contests tho plot of Connors the foreman
He told me
I tried not to do it I only did It to owe us
he would have mo tunwd oft He told me he would wo would all of us
HeWe could serer get anything to doheronlIln
loso our plaoes
He warned me Ho vvsod to
would have ruined us
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speak to merat on tho platform Then he bognn to males lovo toHe offered me inoney He begged nuhe said he loved me Then
he threatened me He know all nbotit us he knt w we would starve
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knew your horshe know Marljaa He would hound us to death hoho said If I woitldif 1we would nil be sure of work
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happens to A man when he Is arrested and I was fortunate In meeting at
the outset a young physician who haul been through the experience himself
and could toll mo exactly what 1 wanted This man had lived all his life
in the yards and had workfd his stay up He had been gradiated from a
medical schoM and was ntltlcd to a license but he did not get It because
lio was unwilling to way the usual graft to the city olllclnl who was charged
with Issuing It After waiting for several months he made uv his mind to
forco the Issue nail bocnn practising without n license IT mis arrested
and sent to Jail He only stayed there ono night howevor ecauso ttnso
In authority rcallsed Lhathe meant to fight and so they 1n him go and gave
him hlF license to hush up the scandal His experience during that night
was tho same as the experience of Jurgls that is he was shut up In n stone
icoll which has a double tier of berths the blankets of which were gray
with filth He described to mo how he felt when he lifted them up and
saw thousands of roaches scurrying away His supper and his breakfast
the next morning consisted of duffers and
former being hunksof bread and the latter coffee with some kind of a drug In it to quiet the
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This young doctor Introduced mo to a young lawyer In Packlngtown
who had taken part ratter as an amused spectator In Pncklngtown poli- ¬
tics and who save mo somo delightful do t
tails about conditions there I could write
Alderman Carey
n book about tho facts which I cot concern ¬
a Millionaire
ing this aspect of tho life of the neighbor ¬
Out of Politics
hood
After I cot through talking with this
lawyer 1 met sonic men on tho other side
and got their stories and from every workingman with whom I talked
I sot
new views
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arc caught stealing city water be fee it up BO that there Is no
scandal
Ho owns the dumps of which you are prevented front taking
pictures by the
He owns a brick factory and after ho gets
city police
the clay wt of
tho ground ho set the city to 1111 up tho hole with garbage
and then he
builds homos on il for tho working class of Packlnctown
When election
day comes around the packers put up largo scans of money
and Carey gout I
tho working class to vbto for him and then soils them out to their
nmters
To help hint with his election work ho has a gang of ruffians
they are In tho VatIU League ant they have prlzo called In
titans
fights and
dog fights In defiance of tho law
All tho policemen belong to It in spite of tho fact that this Is
against
tho law Alt the saloon keepers belong to It because they cannot do busi- ¬
ness othcnviBO
So on election day Careys
Indians have freo drinks to lstrlbuto to
Socialistic Ideas
wavering voters SI neo I loft
Spreading Among tho announcemniont has boon Packlngtown
made that
Carey has been building himself a palatial
the Workingmen
home over In tho Hyde Park section of tho
town Packlngtown Is no longer good enough for him Ho tried his best
However to make It good enough I noticed that his street was the only
well paved street In tho neighborhood except those on which tho
wagons have to pass to got to the city It le one of tho tow streets which
has any lights and needless to say It tins cowers there were no coasjools
underneath Tom Careys homo
I know that this is a black picture a picture that makes tray taro J
American turn elck to look at It 1o bAd enough that thaw linadreaa at
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The Democratic machine In the stockyards district Is
owned an