President Theordore Roosevelt and John Muir went on a camping trip to Yosemite Valley in 1903.Both, Theordore Roosevelt and John Muir went together they both had the same goal to preserve nature.They also went together because, John Muir was the only person that President Roosevelt would go with. In source one it is about, how President Theordore Roosevelt and John Muir go to the Yosemite valley together because, “that is the only person that Roosevelt will go with”. Roosevelt said, “What are we supposed to do when all of are forest are gone because, of all these people that are destroying them”.In passage 1, it states “ In 1890, the government formed Yosemite National Park, but the new park did not include Yosemite Valley”.In this passage, it is very important for Roosevelt and John to save the red wood trees because that is both of there goals in life and they decided to do it together.In the middle of the passage, it talks about how were they traveled to and how they got there and things like that.Next, At the end of the story it talks about what they …show more content…
Secondly,The only birds he noticed or cared for were some that were very conspicuous, such as the water-ouzels always particular favorites of mine too”In this passage,it talks about how someone talked Roosevelt into going to camp with him.According to Roosevelt. , it talks about how they camped in a snowstorm that night.In conclusion,the passage is about how they got to the place and what the nights were like the two days he
by 1904 taft became president theodore roosevelt’s secretary of war. taft became president after a private meeting between nellie and roosevelt and taft was talked into being president instead of his dream as chief justice. and he was president from 1909 to 1913. and he was chief justice from 1921 to 1930. taft did not like the election that made him roosevelt’s successor. he said “it was one of the worst four months of my life”. he pledged his loyalty to roosevelt. soon after taft found out that his techniques differ from from those of his predecessor. taft alienated a lot of liberal republicans who later formed the republican party. taft served as professor of law at yale until president harding made him chief justice. taft preferred law
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson are two of America’s most celebrated presidents during the 20th century. Theodore Roosevelt who was a Republican had a military background and created the American conservation movement. Theodore Roosevelt was also once shot by an would be assassin and still managed to give his speech. Roosevelt was famous by his quote “It takes more than one to kill a moose.” On the other had Woodrow Wilson who is a Democrat formed the idea of preserve peace. The stories about these men are the stories that are taught in our
John Muir was a muckraker who protested against the expansion of people and animals that would ruin our soon to be national parks. Muir was a man that loved to explore natural formations in nature and traveled around the world to see as much natural land as possible. As he traveled around the world, he found out that California was his place to live. In California, his favorite places to explore and watch were the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite. As more and more settlers moved West, the land that Muir loved was soon to be destroyed by herds of animals and people looking for a place to build their homes. Muir wrote most of his 300 articles and 10 major books in Oakland, California. In Muir’s writings, he elegantly
Thesis: Because the Great Depression quickly changed America's view of liberalism, Roosevelt can be considered a liberal and Hoover a conservative, despite occasionally supporting similar policies.
Now that we have taken the time to look at the personal lives of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, lets look at the similarities that these two men share. From looking at their backgrounds, the first thing that we see in conjoint between these men, is, as young boys they were both fond of learning. Which ultimately, lead them both to attend Envy-League Colleges. Furthermore, while attending these schools, they both got degrees in law. After graduating, Wilson and Roosevelt got into politics, where they both ran as Demonstrates and became Presi-dent of the United States. While in office they both faced many challenges. However, despite those trials, they both rose above them. In addition to over coming, their own personal tribula-tions they both created acts and policies that effected and changed America significantly.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt are very influential individuals in the political development of the United States of America and are key to the history of the US. There are several differences and similarities between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt.
Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt were both presidents during one of the most difficult times in American history, the Great Depression. To try and ease the hardships that many Americans were facing, each President developed many different programs. The different actions that each took to lessen the blow of the depression classified them as either a liberal or conservative. If their actions focused on helping the economy, they would be considered a conservative. If they were more focused on helping the lives of the American people, they would be classified as a liberal. Neither President can be labeled as strictly one. Although Franklin Roosevelt was
There were many similarities between Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. The special relationship with their fathers was a quality that the two men shared. Their dads were huge influences in their lives, they got a whole lot of their inspiration from their fathers. T.R.'s dad passed early in his life, and even though he might not have been there physically, he was still with
Theodore Roosevelt originally came into the national spotlight as the hero of the Spanish-American War when he led a charge against the Spanish during the battle of San Juan Hill. However, a military background isn’t the only thing Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson have in common, they both believed that the president had a mandate from the people to lead. This led Roosevelt to increase the power of the executive office in very similar ways to Jackson.
Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt were two of America’s great presidents. This is why I feel that both men were equally important in what they did and said they would do. Both in their own ways have added a little of what makes this country what it is today. Both had their own beliefs of how reform, empowerment of the people and foreign policy should be accomplished. As president, the main goal was to do what they felt best for the American people. In doing so, how different could they really be?
In Wallace Stegner’s “Wilderness Letter,” he is arguing that the countries wilderness and forests need to be saved. For a person to become whole, Stegner argues that the mere idea of the wild and the forests are to thank. The wilderness needs to be saved for the sake of the idea. He insinuates that anyone in America can just think of Old faithful, Mt. Rainier, or any other spectacular landform, even if they have not visited there, and brought to a calm. These thoughts he argues are what makes us as people whole.
During the Progressive Era from 1890-1920, America saw three new presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. This period of time is known as the Progressive Era due to the political and social changes made to move away from a laissez-faire government to a more active government by the administrations of these presidents. Prior to this period, Americans had to suffer through poor working conditions, low wages, social and class inequality and become victims to large corporations that took advantage of the people. In particular, the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson established the key principles and ideas of economic reform and social reform, which would end up returning the power from the manipulative corporations back to the government, establishing a model for a more active role for the federal government, and improve the lives of Americans. However, even though Roosevelt and Wilson had similar intentions of reforming America, they both had different means of achieving it.
Theodore Roosevelt’s visionary leadership led to the preservation of our natural resources. Theodore Roosevelt loved nature and believed our natural resources were one of America’s greatest treasures. In his lifetime he had seen the slow erosion of these resources to urban development and industrialization. He knew he had to act quickly to protect these resources, but
The speeches of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy are both meant to deliver a powerful message. Despite how similar these messages are, there are contrasting ideas that set the speeches apart. The speeches of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy share similarities in their statements on freedom and the main purposes of the speeches themselves, while differing in historical context.
To Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover had been unwilling to deal with the crisis, the Great Depression, and failed to provide a solution. But these failings gave Roosevelt his chance to take action. He came up with new and bold ideas that was exactly what the country needed after the years of inaction by Hoover. For example, when the Stock Market had crashed in 1929, unlike Hoover, FDR recognized the flaws in it straightaway, the flaws that had allowed for the bank failings and the overall crash. And then immediately proposed ideas to do what was possible for a fix.