Compare And Contrast Upton Sinclair And Henry Ford
Upton Sinclair vs. Henry Ford Almost everyone has heard of Ford Motor Company. Ford sells millions of cars, trucks and SUVs and has advertisements almost everywhere. It is nearly impossible to have not. While Ford is a prominent player in American industry, little attention is paid to the industry that ensures that the hamburger we just ate is sanitary. Henry Ford started the Ford Motor Company which produced the first wide selling automobile that changed the way America moved. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, an exposé of the conditions of the meat packing industry in
America. Both were imperative, but who contributed most to American society? Born in 1863, Henry Ford was an engineer from Michigan in the early 1900’s. He was not the first to experiment with self propelled vehicles, but his was one of the first to take hold and gain popularity in America. He first created the Quadricycle, a four wheeled vehicle that used a gasoline motor to propel itself. After two …show more content…
While the public was in uproar, the president, Teddy Roosevelt, was unconcerned, starting that Sinclair was a ‘crackpot’. Roosevelt sent in people he trusted, Charles P. Neill and James Bronson Reynolds to surprise visit the factories. What they found surprised them; Sinclair was right. Roosevelt was forced to take action. Public pressure along with Neill and Reynolds findings forced him to pass the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug in 1906. These later became what is now The Food and Drug Administration. Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel was “aimed at the public's heart, and by accident hit them in the stomach." (Sinclair). That it did. A novel about immigrant’s hardships quickly turned into a revolution in the sanitation of America’s food and
America. Both were imperative, but who contributed most to American society? Born in 1863, Henry Ford was an engineer from Michigan in the early 1900’s. He was not the first to experiment with self propelled vehicles, but his was one of the first to take hold and gain popularity in America. He first created the Quadricycle, a four wheeled vehicle that used a gasoline motor to propel itself. After two …show more content…
While the public was in uproar, the president, Teddy Roosevelt, was unconcerned, starting that Sinclair was a ‘crackpot’. Roosevelt sent in people he trusted, Charles P. Neill and James Bronson Reynolds to surprise visit the factories. What they found surprised them; Sinclair was right. Roosevelt was forced to take action. Public pressure along with Neill and Reynolds findings forced him to pass the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug in 1906. These later became what is now The Food and Drug Administration. Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel was “aimed at the public's heart, and by accident hit them in the stomach." (Sinclair). That it did. A novel about immigrant’s hardships quickly turned into a revolution in the sanitation of America’s food and