The great basic facts are already well known. We know that our population is now adding about one-fifth to its numbers in ten years, and that by the middle of the present century perhaps one hundred and fifty million Americans, and by its end very many millions more, must be fed and clothed from the products of our soil. With the steady growth in population and the still more rapid increase in consumption, our people will hereafter make greater and not less demands per capita upon all the natural resources for their livelihood, comfort, and convenience. It is high time to realize that our responsibility to the coming millions is like that of parents to their children, and that in wasting our resources we are wronging our descendants. . . . I desire to make grateful acknowledgment to the men, both in and out of the government service, who have prepared the first inventory of our natural resources. They have made it possible for this nation to take a great step forward. Their work is helping us to see that the greatest questions before us are not partisan questions, but questions upon which men of all parties and all shades of opinion may be united for the common good. Among such questions, on the material side, the conservation of natural resources stands first. It is the bottom round of the ladder on our upward progress toward a condition in which the nation as a whole, and its citizens as individuals, will set national efficiency and the public welfare before personal profit.

- from a letter written by President Theodore Roosevelt, 1909

1) This letter is MOST associated with which of these?
A) the New Deal
B) the Populist Era
C) the Great Depression
D) the Conservation Movement

2) Based on the reading, which of these actions were MOST likely supported by Roosevelt?
A) the construction of a monument to honor Abraham Lincoln
B) the establishment of the Grand Canyon as a national park
C) the preservation of the battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
D) the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps to construct dams