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Crater Lake National Park
Crater Lake National Park is the only national park in Oregon and contains the most remarkable feature in the world.This feature and the dominant element of the park,is the massive lake contained in the caldera fomred by the collaspe of the ancient volcano known as Mt.Mazama.William Gladstone Steel appealed to personal friends of President Roosevelt and in 1902 Roosevelt passed a bill making Crater Lake a National Park. -
"The Jungle"
"The Jungle" was written by Upton Sinclair. After spending several weeks conducting undercover research Upton wrote "The Jungle" and revealed the health violations and unsanitary practices in most American meat-packing industries. He also provided vivid descriptions of the cruelty to animals.As a result of "The Jungle" the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was signed by President Roosevelt. The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Meat Inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act(FMIA) was signed by President Roosevelt to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Grand Canyon
In 1908 on Jan.11th President Roosevelt announced that the Grand Canyon was now a national monumnet.In Jan. of 1908 Roosevelt exercised this right to make more than 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon area into a national monument.Congress did not officially outlaw private development in the Grand Canyon until 1919, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Grand Canyon National Park Act.
