What impression do you have of the man in this picture? Give 2 pieces of evidence to support your claim.

Todays Key Questions:

How was Teddy Roosevelt a Progressive President? What is conservation and what things were created because of it?

Mr. Gs Model Essay Reading on Teddy Roosevelt

Think: What is a progressive? While reading highlight the evidence that proves that Teddy is a progressive

President Teddy Roosevelt

Thought gov should be for good of common man Believed in capitalism but wanted business to be regulated (similar to checks & balances) by US gov

Reforms of Progressives start with him:

Regulated Trusts/monopolies Backed workers in protests for reforms Created government agencies to check business (FDA, Department of Commerce and Labor)

What do you see?

Conservation
Some progressives were 1st environmentalists (then called conservationists) Teddy was BIG conservationist Wanted natural resources protected so they could keep benefiting people
Built dams for farm irrigation & drinking water protection, parks for hunting, etc

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Roosevelt wanted "to make the forest produce the largest amount of whatever crop or service will be most useful, and keep on producing it for generation after generation of men and trees."

Founding of the National Park System

 John Muir was a muckraker who wrote books about preserving nature for the sake of its beauty Walked 1000 miles from Indiana to Florida
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

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Progressive/muckrakers Song/poem creation

Step 1: Read the document given Step 2: You have 10 minutes to write a song or poem about one of the topics we have learned about so far: 1) The working conditions in the meatpacking industry 2) The sanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry 3) Lynching 4) The Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case(separate but equal) 5) The debate between Booker T Washington and W.E.B Dubois over how to battle segregation 6) Conservation