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The Jungle was Upton Sinclair's infamous 1906 novel that was a story that brought to light the problems in the meat industry. It was tied to the rise of the Progressive Era was all about getting the government more involved with society problems instead of letting society take care of itself through natural selection.
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For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
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An Act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender.
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Tendency of the general public to buy more and more products in prosperous times.