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December 13, 2010U.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 VocabularyWarm-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.

Agenda/Topics To Be Covered

Protecting HealthUpton Sinclair’s The Jungle highlighted the

problems in the meat packing industryCongress pass the meat Inspection act of 1906Replaced in 1996 with more sophisticated

techniquesPure Food and Drug ActFoods produced with harmful chemicals for

preservationDr. Harvey Washington Wiley instrumental in the

act’s passageRequired truthful labels

Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal Ch. 9 Sec. 3 pgs. 341-347

Conservation and natural resourcesFederal government’s role in protecting

natural environment was small Roosevelt set aside millions of acres of land

for preservationGifford PinchotAdvised Roosevelt to conserve land Kept federal land exempt for

Did not support civil rightsSupported individual African-American

leadersAppointed an African-American as head of the

customhouseInvited Booker T. Washington to WhitehouseW.E.B. DuBois opposed Washington’s view on

Thrift, Patience and industrial Training

Roosevelt and Civil Rights

Independent WorkProblem What 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!!!!!

Exit Ticket

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.

Homework