American Enviornmentalism Test 2

Question 1

First president to set aside land to protect.

Answer 1

Jackson with hot springs.

Question 2

first enviornmentalist, deforistation speeches and over grazing

Answer 2

George Marsh

Question 3

Mother of the forest

Answer 3

2300 year old tree. People sad/mad

Question 4

wrote Man and Nature: The Earth as Modified by Human Action

Answer 4

Marsh, used term ecosystem, called for science based conservation.

Question 5

John Conness, Abraham Lincoln

Answer 5

Wrote bill to protect Yosemite and ownership went from feds to California.

Question 6

First National Park, Worlds First National Park

Answer 6

Yellowstone National Park

Question 7

Very large brain, Father of National Parks

Answer 7

John Muir

Question 8

Spoke of Yosemite Glaciers

Answer 8

John Muir

Question 9

Set aside 347 square miles of land

Answer 9

Yellowstone National Park Act

Question 10

Yellowstone National Park act

Answer 10

Congress passes and grant vetoes….Congress override his veto.

Question 11

Election of 1888

Answer 11

Benjamin Harrison stays at home to campaign and wins electoral vote

Question 12

Arbor Day

Answer 12

Planted 1 million trees in Nebraska, started by J Sterling Morton

Question 13

Father of American Forestry

Answer 13

Franklin B Hough (Divison of Forestry)

Question 14

Benjamin Harrison

Answer 14

Loved yellowstone

Question 15

started advocating for Colorado River and Grand Canyon National Parks

Answer 15

Benjamin Harrison

Question 16

Harrisons most important act passed

Answer 16

Forest Reserve Act

Question 17

Forest Reserve Act

Answer 17

Gave president the power to make forest reserves. Set aside 18 million acres.

Question 18

Biggest impact of Benjamin Harrison

Answer 18

One national park when he arrives. A WHOLE LOT when he leaves.

Question 19

Wrote air and rain, concidered possibility of acid rain

Answer 19

Robert Angus Smith

Question 20

Greenhouse warming

Answer 20

Sun rays cant leave atmosphere once they get in

Question 21

Exited about global warming and wrote World in the Making

Answer 21

Svante Arrhenius

Question 22

Dr. Harold Atoine Des Voeux

Answer 22

River pollution act (sewage)

Question 23

created Ethyl leaded fuel and chlorofluorocarbons

Answer 23

Thomas Midgley

Question 24

Impact of great depression

Answer 24

Businessmen went from heros to zeros

Question 25

Manhattan Project

Answer 25

Develop atomic bomb

Question 26

Hiroshima

Answer 26

First dropped atomic bomb on city

Question 27

Antiquities Act

Answer 27

Allowed president to protect immediately (National Monuments)

Question 28

Hetch Hetchy Valley

Answer 28

Part of yosimite. San Fransico Dams Valley for water. Muir Says TR betrayed him.

Question 29

Lucky Dragon boat

Answer 29

Men almost killed by radiation from H Bomb

Question 30

AEC/ Admiral Strauss

Answer 30

Military in charge of radiation regulation…strange.