The Jungle
Safety Laws
Gross but True
100

This author exposed the horrors and truth about the meat-packing industry in The Jungle

Who is Upton Sinclair

100

This 1906 law required inspections of meat products. 

What is the Meat Inspection Act

100

This rodent was often found in the meatpacking plants

What is a rat

200

The Jungle was published in what year

What is 1906

200

This President pushed for food safety laws after reading The Jungle

Who is Theodore Roosevelt

200

Spoiled meat was sometimes masked with this chemical

What is borax or formaldehyde?

300

The public reacted more to this than the worker's struggles in The Jungle

What is the unsanitary conditions/meat contamination

300

The Meat Inspection Act applied to meat that crossed these lines

What are state lines (interstate commerce)

300

Workers sometimes fell into this and became part of the meat

What is a rendering vat