RSM200 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED
National Park definition - ANSWER a natural area protected and managed by the federal
government
Purpose of National Park - ANSWER 1. Preserve areas of importance
2. Make these areas available for public
Criteria for National Park - ANSWER 1. Be outstanding example of particular resource
2. Interpret natural/cultural themes of our nation
3. Opportunities for recreation and public use
4. True, accurate, and unspoiled example of resource.
Transcendentalism - ANSWER Reflection of divine spirit to reach heightened awareness
Earliest National Park idea - ANSWER Searching for national identity with natural wonders
Who was at the "Campfire Conversation?" - ANSWER Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir
What did Roosevelt and Muir do at the "Campfire Conversation?" - ANSWER Exchanged views
that led to expansion of Yosemite
, Homestead Act 1862 - ANSWER Settlers could claim 160 acres of land
Reclamation Act 1902 - ANSWER Funded irrigation projects for arid lands in west
Antiquities Act 1906 - ANSWER Gave the president permission to create national monuments
without having to go through congress
Organic Act 1916 - ANSWER Created the NPS
Federal Water Power Act 1920 - ANSWER Regulated development of hydroelectric projects
Reorganization Act 1933 - ANSWER Made NPS sole agency over all federal parks, monuments,
and memorials
Act for the Relief of Unemployment 1933 - ANSWER Created the CCC to help unemployed
young men
Ralph Waldo Emerson - ANSWER Father of Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau - ANSWER Father of Environmental Movement (science and nature)
National Park definition - ANSWER a natural area protected and managed by the federal
government
Purpose of National Park - ANSWER 1. Preserve areas of importance
2. Make these areas available for public
Criteria for National Park - ANSWER 1. Be outstanding example of particular resource
2. Interpret natural/cultural themes of our nation
3. Opportunities for recreation and public use
4. True, accurate, and unspoiled example of resource.
Transcendentalism - ANSWER Reflection of divine spirit to reach heightened awareness
Earliest National Park idea - ANSWER Searching for national identity with natural wonders
Who was at the "Campfire Conversation?" - ANSWER Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir
What did Roosevelt and Muir do at the "Campfire Conversation?" - ANSWER Exchanged views
that led to expansion of Yosemite
, Homestead Act 1862 - ANSWER Settlers could claim 160 acres of land
Reclamation Act 1902 - ANSWER Funded irrigation projects for arid lands in west
Antiquities Act 1906 - ANSWER Gave the president permission to create national monuments
without having to go through congress
Organic Act 1916 - ANSWER Created the NPS
Federal Water Power Act 1920 - ANSWER Regulated development of hydroelectric projects
Reorganization Act 1933 - ANSWER Made NPS sole agency over all federal parks, monuments,
and memorials
Act for the Relief of Unemployment 1933 - ANSWER Created the CCC to help unemployed
young men
Ralph Waldo Emerson - ANSWER Father of Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau - ANSWER Father of Environmental Movement (science and nature)
