PROTECTING CONSUMERS & THE ENVIRONMENT

What were some of the problems faced by consumers and the environment at the turn of the century?

    The meat-packing industry
http://agriculture.house.gov/glossary/federal_meat_inspection_act_of_1906.htm

    Railroads price rating system

    patent medicines

    damages to the environment from industrialization

During the Progressive Era, how were these problems addressed?

    The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
    Pure Food and Drug Act - Today known as the Food and Drug Administration
    http://www.druglibrary.org/olsen/dpf/whitebread03.html
    http://www.myhistory.org/history_files/articles/pure_fd_dg_act.html
    http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst203/documents/pure.html
    The Interstate Commerce Commission
    http://www.bartleby.com/65/in/Intersta.html
    Teddy Roosevelt - the First Conservation President
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html
    Gifford Pinchot
    http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/PA_Env-Her/pinchot_bio.htm
    John Muir
    http://www.myhero.com/earthkeepers/muir.asp
    Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks

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