Baltimore Polytechnic Institute December 13, 2010 U.S. History Mr. Green

The students will identify laws passed to protect citizen’s health and preserve the environment by explaining the purposes of these laws Hand-in: Chapter 9 Vocabulary Warm-up Question: Read the Now and Then on page 345 and answer the following questions: 1. Explain the purpose for meat inspection. 2. Identify the methods meat inspectors utilized into the 1990’s to inspect meat.

Protecting Health Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle highlighted the problems in the meat packing industry Congress pass the meat Inspection act of 1906 Replaced in 1996 with more sophisticated techniques Pure Food and Drug Act Foods produced with harmful chemicals for preservation Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley instrumental in the act’s passage Required truthful labels

Conservation and natural resources Federal government’s role in protecting natural environment was small Roosevelt set aside millions of acres of land for preservation Gifford Pinchot Advised Roosevelt to conserve land Kept federal land exempt for

Did not support civil rights Supported individual African-American leaders Appointed an African-American as head of the customhouse Invited Booker T. Washington to Whitehouse W.E.B. DuBois opposed Washington’s view on Thrift, Patience and industrial Training

ProblemWhat steps did Roosevelt take to solve each problem? Which legislation helped solve the problem? 1. Dangerous foods and medicines 2. Shrinking wilderness and natural resources 3. Racial discrimination

Students will read the primary source, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and answer the questions at the end of the reading. THIS IS DUE TODAY!!!!!

 Chapter 9 Vocabulary due on Friday  Read Chapter 9 Section 4  Begin preparing for Chapter 9 test on Thursday.  Study guide is due on Thursday-NO EXTENSIONS.