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1492
Colombian Exchange
brought new crops to US (potatoes) -
Agriculture in Colonies
Tobacco (bad for soil), sugar, rice, wheat -
Chesapeake Environment
Warm, perfect for tobacco (bad for land), sugar, rice -
New England Environment
rocky, cold. ppl whaled, traded (used sea) -
Middle Colonies Environment
Flat, not lots of rain. Lots of farming and hunting (buffalo, wheat) -
Louisiana Purchase
doubled US land. Jefferson bought land from France. -
Depletion of Buffalo
bc Americans were hunting them too much. badly hurt native american life -
Manifest Destiny
US's "god given" right to expand westwards. eventually spread overseas (Spanish-Amer. War) -
Mexican Cession
End of MX-Amer. war. added lots of land to the US -
Industrialization
During Gilded Age. Pollution! (railroads, steamships, coal, factories, etc) -
Sierra Club
Environmental organization by John Muir -
Pure Food and Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act
inspired by The Jungle -
Creation of National Parks
by TR -
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
called for protection of natural resources -
Clean Air Act
made by LBJ (great society) -
EPA Created
By Nixon