When government inspectors investigated the claims made by Upton Sinclair in The Jungle, they found that Sinclair had dishonestly represented the conditions in slaughterhouses. Sinclair had written his books to promote democracy. slaughterhouse owners were eager to improve working conditions. slaughterhouse conditions were even worse than Sinclair had reported.

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the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.