Health and Environment

“A clean life is a better life”

By: Vanessa Tarabocchia, Sarah Pak, Jordan Paton and Allison Stenzi

Key Players

● Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)● Dr. Harvey Washington● Muir● Pinchot● Theodore Roosevelt

Upton Sinclair

● In 1904, Sinclair took a two-month visit to Chicago’s “Packingtown” area which provided him with a lot of material that he turned into his best-selling novel, The Jungle.

● Sinclair’s main concern was not with the goods that were produced, but with the workers who produced them.

Dr. Harvey Washington

● “Father of the Pure Food and Drugs Act” and “Crusading Chemist”

● At Washington, he was employed to regard the safety of the chemical preservatives being put into food. ○ people who did this were called the “poison

squad”

John Muir

● America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist.

● “The Father of our National Parks,” “Wilderness Prophet,” and “Citizen of the Universe”

● Founder of the Sierra Club

Gifford Pinchot

● The chief, or forester, of the new Forest Service.

● Restructured and professionalized the management of the national forests.

● He had a strong hand in guiding the fledgling organization toward the utilitarian philosophy of the "greatest good for the greatest number."

Key Events

● Meat Inspection Act● Pure Food and Drug Act● Forest Reserve● Land Conservation● Wildlife Sanctuaries and National Parks

Meat Inspection Act

● Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) is a United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

● FMIA was created in 1906

Pure Food and Drug Act

● An Act 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.

● Enacted by the House of Reps.

Forest Reserve

● Was permitted to "set apart and reserve… public land bearing forests... or in part covered by timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations."

● To Pinchot, it represented “the beginning and basis of our whole National Forest system.”

Land Conservation

● Newlands Act of 1902 passed by Roosevelt.○ dozens of dams were created in the desert

including the massive Roosevelt Dam on Arizona’s Salt River

Wildlife Sanctuaries and National Parks

● Roosevelt set aside 125 million acres of timberlands as federal reserves (did the same with coal and water reserves).

● Supported by Muir, Pinchot and Sierra Club.

Work Cited

● http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/purefood.html:

● http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22116/

● http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/

● http://www.foresthistory.org/Publications/Books/Origins_National_Forests/sec17.htm

● http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/the-progressive-presidents/

● http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/hwwiley.htm

● http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/purefood.html

● http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/the-progressive-presidents/

● http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/the-progressive-presidents/