HIS 232 Ch 19-21

Discuss the issue of conservation and what President Theodore Roosevelt did to promote this important issue.

President Theodore Roosevelt was an outdoorsman, a big part of his legacy was the protection of America's beauty of the great outdoors. To protect the land he created 5 nation parks, many bird preserves, and amounted over 230 million areas of public land. He also appointed the first chief of the US forestry service. His goal was to protect the land for future use. After seeing the destruction that industrial revolution caused to the north, he found it very important to preserves the land other areas. We had built cities, rail roads, farms, and ranches wherever we had wanted before this and Roosevelt wanted to preserve the animals and wild life in areas that we were now moving into.

Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big business.

False

How did immigration to America change in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and what was the response to that change?

Immigration changed in the later half of the nineteenth century because the immigrants that were coming to America weren't wealthy. The immigrants were coming here with different languages, religions, and were staying in cities instead of going out and building farms. In the earlier half of the century they would come from wealth with a plan to go to the country. Now they were coming in hopes of a fresh start in a factory jobs located in the cities. The response to this change was discrimination against them. Factory owners would higher them for a lower wage than whites. People wouldn't sell their houses to them so they ended up in small tenement houses that where shared but a large number of people. Sometimes legislation was passed to keep them out of work, such as the Chinese Exclusion act.

What was the purpose of the "subtreasury plan"?

It allowed farmers to secure low-interest government loans.

In major cities, politics was often a form of public entertainment.

True

Socialism was an antecedent to progressivism.

True

President Taft's domestic policies generated a storm of controversy:

Within his own party

"Nativists" believed that:

immigrants threatened traditional American culture.

Mary Elizabeth Lease:

was a Kansas Alliance leader.