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Environment
progressive era
Question | Answer |
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Sierra Club | 1. Promote responsible usage of Earth’s resources 2. make national parks 3. Save the land from deforestation and mining 4. founder = John Muir (religious), wants federal protection of land |
Teddy Roosevelt | 1. big conservationist that focused on morality 2. Created the United States Forest Service 3. made a lot of national parks |
Giffot Pinchot | 1. Focus on the practicality of nature (we need resources), not the moral effects of destroying nature 2. Use what you need 3. Forester |
Conservationist | 1. "chop down a tree, plant another" 2. Can use natural resources, but also conserve them |
Preservationist | 1. leave nature be 2. "dont chop down any trees" |
Ballinger-Pinchot affair | 1. news accuse Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of letting big business gain access to Alaskan coal lands. 2. Pinchot says RBs corrupt, criticizes RB & Taft, say they're against conservation & democracy. 5. Pinchot fired, RB found "innocent" |
effect of Ballinger-Pinchot affair | ppl afraid taft administration is undoing TR's conservation work |
Effectiveness of environmental reform? | sorta effective, created national parks, but didn't solve issues of air pollution |