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6. What did Roosevelt do because of the American public reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?

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The Jungle helped to shed a much needed light on the inhumane conditions that workers and immigrants endured. Upon reading Sinclair's work, then- President Roosevelt believed that "radical action must be taken to do away with the efforts of arrogant and selfish greed on the part of the capitalist."

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