Question

In 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt included the following quotation in his annual message to Congress. Write V if the statement seems valid based on Roosevelt’s message to Congress and I if it seems invalid. Correct each invalid statement so that it is true. (Hint: There are three invalid statements. Don’t forget to correct them!)

"We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so. The mineral wealth of the country, the coal, iron, oil, gas, and the like, does not reproduce itself, and therefore is certain to be exhausted ultimately; and wastefulness in dealing with it today means that our descendants will feel the exhaustion a generation or two before they otherwise would."




1. Roosevelt was unaware of the variety of natural resources in the United States.


2. Roosevelt believed that every mineral resource should be left alone.


3. Roosevelt recognized that some natural resources could be used up.


4. Roosevelt believed that conserving resources was vital to future generations.


5. Roosevelt was more concerned with preserving resources for their beauty than using them intelligently.





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Answer 1

As Roosevelt’s Seventh Annual Message makes clear, the concern with conservation was national, not focused solely on the West. The conservation movement had its biggest impact in the West, however, because of the federal government’s ownership of so much land there and its authority over territories before they became states. In 1886, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Alaska were still territories. New Mexico and Arizona did not become states until 1912, Alaska until 1959 (along with Hawaii).

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