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Agricultural Revolution
10,000 -
Industrial Revolution
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Thomas Mathus (population growth)
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First Billion People
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John Muir
Founded the Sierra Club -
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau was a transcendentalist and Walden was about him traveling into the wilderness living in a small little cabin in solitude. -
Homestead Act
This was a law passed to give away free land to people in order to help the nation grow -
Yellowstone National Park Founded
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American Forestry Association Founded
Non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring forests. -
Yosemine & Sequoia National Parks Founded
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General Revisons Act
Allowed the president to create forest preserves under the Forest Reserve Act, to create forest preserves -
Sierra Club Founded
The Sierra Club is the oldes enviormental group and it tries to preserve the enviorment and natural resources. -
Lacey Act
Creates penalties for damaging the enviorment and/ or it's wildlife -
Golden Age of Conservation
1901-1909 -
Thedore Roosevelt elected
Known for being the most enviormental friendly president. -
First National Wildlife Refuge Established
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Grifford Pinchot
He the first American enviormentalist politition -
Aldo Leopold
He was infuential in modern environmental ethics and also in wilderness conservation -
Audubon Society Founded
They conserve and restore the natural ecosystem -
Antiquities Act
This gives the president the executive order to declare a certain piece of land restricted to use. -
Congress Becomes Upset With Roosevelt
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US National Park Service Founded
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Second Billion People
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Dust Bowl
Continued throughout the 1930s -
US Forest Service Founded
Manage the nations largest forests and grass lands -
Civilian Conservation Corps Founded
Gave people in America manual labor jobs and also help restore the enviorment -
Soil Conservation Service Founded
Provides assistance to farmers in order to keep the soil healthy -
Taylor Grazing Act
Made to stop hurting the land and to keep the soil healthy -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
Made people have to buy a stamp in order to hunt different types of birds. -
Fish Plus Wildlifer Service Founded
Made to help conserve fish and wildlife from being depleted -
FIFRA
protect applicators, consumers, and the environment -
Jane Goodall
Worked with chimpanzees and studied how they interact with each other -
Third Billion People
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Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Said to be what started the current enviormental movement -
Wilderness Act
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Clean Air Act
Law was made to stop polution into the atmosphere -
Clean Air Act Revision
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Garret Hardin & Tragedy of the Commons
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Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Finds different places to dump pollution rather than in places that should be protected. -
Cuyahoga river in Cleveland, Ohio
The river was very polluted and has caught fire a over a dozen times -
NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act
A law passed in order to enhance the environment -
Richard Nixon
1969-1974. He created the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and created the EPA -
First Earth Day
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EPA Established
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Clean Air Act Revision
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Clean Water Act
Made to stop toxic waste dumps into water -
Endangered Species Act
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OPEC oil embargo
Gas prices raised 4 times in price and OPEC made people ration how much they use -
Roland And Molina
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Fourth Billion People
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RCRA
Decided on where to put solid waste -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
Regulates coal mining in the US -
Clean Air Act Revision
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Lois Gibbs
Found out that the elementary school and the neighborhood love canal were built on top of a nuclear waste dump and encouraged her neighbors to help her battle to get it cleaned up. -
Love Canal
Lois Gibbs discovered that there was polution under a neighborhood attraction called the Love Canal -
Three Mile Nuclear Accident
A few nuclear control rods were exposed to the atmosphere but it was not the result of any death. -
CERCLA
Taxed companies that had hazardist waste -
Alaskan Land Act
Set different parts of Alaska off as part of a national park -
Ronald Reagan Elected
He was a conservationalist but he did set over 100,000 acres of land as protected land -
Bhopal, India
A large amout of poison gas leaked out from a methyl isocyanate tank in a densely populated area -
Chernobyl
An explosion in a chemical factory caused radiation particals to spread over all of Western Russia -
Fifth Billion People
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Montreal Protocol
An international treaty in order to protect the ozone layer -
Exxon Valdez
Large ship that spilled crude oil in Alaska. This is the second largest oil spill in US history -
Clean Air Act Revision
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Energy Policy Act
Addressed using more energy efficient ways of doing things -
Desert Protection Act
Law that established Death Valley, Joshua Tree National Park, and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert and not to be touched. -
Superfund
Cleans up abandon hazardous waste sites -
Julia Butterfly Hill
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Six Billion People
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Kyoto Protocol
1997-2005. An international agreement to lower the emission of greenhouse gases back to what they were in 1996. -
Seven Billion People
