Unit 1 - A brief History of the National Park Service

What is the name given to the creation of the National Park System?

• America’s identity

• America’s worst idea

• America’s best idea

• America’s greatest idea

The United States National Park System covers over ……… acres across all 50 states.

(a)  

What is the name of the man who travelled to the Great Plains in 1832?

• Lyndon Johnson

• George Catlin

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

What is the name of the first official National Park ?

(a)  

In which states is located Yellowstone National Park?

• California, Alaska and Oregon

• Wyoming, Utah and Colorado

• Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota

• Idaho, Montana and Wyoming

What is the controversy mentioned?

• The control of the National Parks

• The management of the public land

• The addition of new National parks

With who President Theodore Roosevelt camped in Yosemite in 1903?

• George Catlin

• John Muir

• Lyndon Johnson

• Woodrow Wilson

When was the Antiquities Act passed?

(a)  

Why was the Antiquities Act passed?

• To allow the president to manage the national parks

• To provide information about the national parks for the president

• To give the president the authority to add national parks in the system

• To give the power of national park management to congress

When did Devil’s Tower become the first national monument?

• 1906

• 1872

• 1903

• 1972