11/1 and 7.4 continued

Go to page 663 of The American Pageant Chapter 29

What is unusual/historic about the election of 1912?



Essential Question #3- How is Power acquired and what measures does it take to Protect Itself?

60 Sec Pres- William Taft

How would you evaluate Taft?


60 Sec Pres- Woodrow Wilson


Essential Question #7- How have citizens affected the growth and change of Political Parties and Government?



Essential Question #6- Where does the drive for Expansion/Intervention come from and what is its impact on America and the rest of the world?



Period 7: 1890-1945, Topic 4- "The Progressives"

Student learning objective- Compare attitudes toward the use of natural resources from 1890 to 1945.

“Hetch Hetchy Valley, far from being a plain, common, rock-bound meadow, as many who have not seen it seem to suppose, is a grand landscape garden, one of Nature’s rarest and most precious mountain temples. . . . The sublime rocks of its walls seem to glow with life, whether leaning back in repose or standing erect in thoughtful attitudes, giving welcome to storms and calms alike, their brows in the sky, their feet set in the groves and gay flowery meadows, while birds, bees, and butterflies help the river and waterfalls to stir all the air into music. . . .

“This most precious and sublime feature of the Yosemite National Park, one of the greatest of all our natural resources for the uplifting joy and peace and health of the people, is in danger of being dammed and made into a reservoir to help supply San Francisco with water and light, thus flooding it from wall to wall and burying its gardens and groves one or two hundred feet deep. This grossly destructive commercial scheme has long been planned and urged . . . because of the comparative cheapness of the dam. . . .

“That anyone would try to destroy [Hetch Hetchy Valley] seems incredible; but sad experience shows that there are people good enough and bad enough for anything. The proponents of the dam scheme bring forward a lot of bad arguments to prove that the only righteous thing to do with the people’s parks is to destroy them bit by bit as they are able.”

John Muir, The Yosemite, published in 1912

Discussion Question #1- What is the purpose of the excerpt?

Discussion Question #2- What power did journalism have then?

Discussion Question #3- What power does journalism have now?

Discussion Question #4- What does Muir need to protect natural resources such as this from industrialization or urban projects?

Discussion Question #5- With your knowledge of the late 1800's, how it is clear that 1900-1920 is indeed a different era?

Conservation vs. Preservation


Note- Quarter 1 ends 11/4/Quarter 1 Deadline!

HW:

-Both group work assignments (10/30 and 10/31) presented 11/4
-Friday, November 8-  American Pageant Chapter 29 Quiz

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