page_title: 1906 in the United States
section_title: January–March
hierarchical_section_title: 1906 in the United States / Events / January–March
caption_attribution_description: English: Splitting backbones and final inspection - hogs ready for cooler, Swift &amp; Co., Chicago. Photographic print on stereo card.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1906 in the United States.
context_section_description: January 8 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 21 people.
  February 26 –  Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family in Chicago during the early 1900s.
  March 17 – The Phi Kappa Tau fraternity is founded at Miami Universities, Oxford, Ohio.
caption: February 28: The Jungle exposes corruption in the meatpacking industry.
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