Upton Sinclair's The Jungle convinced Congress to establish a cabinet position for a secretary of the interior. pass legislation barring slavery from any new territories west of the Mississippi River. create the Agricultural Adjustment Administration . pass the Pure Food and Drug Act. cut funding for the war in Vietnam .

pass food and drug act

Explanation:

workers of lowell mills were greatly benefited for the waltham type of work which was more a paternalist kind, trying to protect the integrity of this little girls coming from small farmers and providing an adequate place of work, this in an effort to avoid the issues of bad place conditions and immorality that the people in bigger industrialized cities of great britain were experimenting.