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KWL Chart: Upton Sinclairs The Jungle

What I know

What I want to
know

What I learned

1) The Jungle talks about

the conditions in the meatpacking industry
2) Reform movements
emerged
3) The progressives were
the reformers
4)Theodore Roosevelt
muck-rake
5)Roosevelt favored large
scale enterprise
6) The American Dream
7) Exploitation of labor
8) Capitalism
9) Social Darwinism
10) Industrialization

1) How bad were the

conditions in the meatpacking industry?
2) What were the
Progressives responding to?
3) What were some federal
food laws?
4) What was the impact of
The Jungle?
5) What were some
immigrant experiences?
6) What is Sinclairs
perspective on Capitalism?
7) How was the shift from
rural to urban?

1) Food that was diseased

and rotten sold
2) Progressives responded
to the rapid growth social
problems, working
conditions, government
corruption, conditions in the
slums.
3) Meat Inspection Act, Pure
Food and Drug Act of 1906
4) "I aimed at the public's
heart and by accident I hit it
in the stomach." Upton
Sinclair
5) Importance of family and
community (connections in
general)
6) Capitalism is viewed
negatively, often seen as
evil.
7) Did not meet
expectations, corruption,
living conditions. Living
conditions were working
conditions.