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Roosevelt signs the Pure Food and Drug Act

1906 · importance 2/5 · ai_extracted

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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. whole source · open book
In 1906, Roosevelt signed a stack of bills to curb industrial abuses. Profiting from the outcry prompted by Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, he signed the meat-inspection bill and the Pure Food and Drug Act.

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Start date (EDTF) 1906 End date (EDTF, empty for a point event)

1914 · 1914-07-28 · -0489 (490 BCE) · 1930~ (circa) · 19XX (century) · 197X (decade)

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