Upton Sinclair wrote the Jungle to bring public awarness and exposes the horrific working conditions in meat packaging factories. He described the sickned, rotten, disgusting meat which shocked the public which led to the start of new federal food laws.

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair, American novelist and political writer, was one of the most important muckrakers (writers who search out and reveal improper conduct in politics and business) of the 1900s. His novel The Jungle helped improve working conditions in the meat-packing industry.

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.

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair Burned in the Nazi bonfires because of Sinclair’s socialist views (1933). Banned in East Germany (1956) as inimical to communism.

The main objectives of the Progressive movement were addressing problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption.

Progressive Era reformers sought to harness the power of the federal government to eliminate unethical and unfair business practices, reduce corruption, and counteract the negative social effects of industrialization.

• Four Goals of Progressivism.
• Social Reform.
• Protecting Social Welfare.
• Promoting Moral Reform.
• Economic Reform.
• Socialism.
• Fostering Efficiency.

The one that was not a goal of the Progressive movement is the establishment of a national bank. The rest includes this goal.

As the 1900s opened, reformers pushed for a number of changes. Together their efforts built the progressive movement. The progressive movement had four major goals: (1) to protect social welfare, (2) to promote moral improvement, (3) to create economic reform, and (4) to foster efficiency.

While the term progressivism represent a range of diverse political pressure groups, not always united, progressives rejected social Darwinism, believing that the problems society faced such as class warfare, greed, poverty, racism and violence could best be addressed by providing good education, a safe environment and …

Economic progressivism is based on the idea that capitalist markets left to operate with limited government regulation are inherently unfair, favoring big business, large corporations and the wealthy.

To understand the word regressive, it’s helpful to know that its antonym, or opposite, is progressive. When something is progressive, it tends to get better and more advanced. Something that’s regressive, on the other hand, gets less developed or returns to an older state.

: tending to hinder the attainment of a desired goal violence as a means to achieve an end is counterproductive— W. E. Brock born 1930.

: moving or happening by steps one after the other Let’s take a step-by-step approach to the problem.

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for regressive. decremental, decrescent, degressive.

1 : tending to regress or produce regression. 2 : being, characterized by, or developing in the course of an evolutionary process involving increasing simplification of bodily structure. 3 : decreasing in rate as the base increases a regressive tax.

As you might guess, regress is the opposite of progress. So if a disease regresses, that’s generally a good thing, but in most other ways we prefer not to regress.