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colored farmers national alliance
c. niagara movement
b. federal trade commission
d. progressive party
what was the primary motivation for the passage of the sixteenth amendment?
a. to replace revenue lost by enacting lower tariffs
b. to curb the power of corporations
c. to create a war chest to pay for future wars
d. to reduce the gap between rich and poor

1. which of the following actions led to the defeat of taft in 1912?

a. his failure to unify the republican party
b. his refusal to sign the payne-aldrich tariff
c. his failure to continue the trust busting of roosevelt
d. his overuse of the bully pulpit
questions 62-64 refer to the passage below.
with one member trimming beef in a cannery, and another working in a sausage factory, the family
had a first-hand knowledge of the great majority of packingtown swindles. for it was the custom,
as they found, whenever meat was so spoiled that it could not be used for anything else, either to
can it or else chop it up into sausage. with what had been told them by jonas, who had worked in
the pickle rooms, they could now study the whole of the spoiled meat industry on the inside, and read a
new and grim meaning into that old packingtown jest - that they use everything of the pig except the squeal.
upton sinclair, the jungle (1906)

1. in the jungle, upton sinclair exposed...

a. illegal deals between special interests and the government
b. unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
c. corrupt business practices of the standard oil company
d. dangers faced by coal miners

1. the industrial abuses described in the jungle led to which of the following federal law(s).

a. pure food and medical act
b. sherman antitrust act
c. interstate commerce act
d. meat inspection act

1. the federal law passed by congress in response to the jungle showed the government’s commitment to...

a. environmental conservation
b. worker’s rights
c. business competition
d. consumer protection

Explanation:

Question 62

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is known for exposing the unsanitary and unethical practices in the meat - packing industry. Option A is about special interests and government deals, which is not the focus of The Jungle. Option C is about Standard Oil, which is related to antitrust issues and not the meat - packing industry. Option D is about coal miners, which is irrelevant to the content of The Jungle. So the correct answer is about the meat - packing industry's unsanitary conditions.

The industrial abuses in the meat - packing industry exposed in The Jungle led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. The Sherman Antitrust Act was about breaking up monopolies, the Interstate Commerce Act was about regulating railroads. So the laws related to the meat - packing industry's issues are the Pure Food and Medical Act (Pure Food and Drug Act) and the Meat Inspection Act.

The laws passed in response to The Jungle (like the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act) were aimed at protecting consumers from unsafe food products. Environmental conservation is about protecting the environment, worker's rights are about labor - related issues, and business competition is about antitrust and market competition. So the government's commitment was to consumer protection.

Answer:

B. unsanitary conditions in the meat - packing industry

Question 63