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1769 — Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution
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The 1770s: Declaration of Independence Colonist seeking independence for the first time
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freedom became a thing
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The 1780s: Constitution of the United States of America created a government to improve itself.
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The 1800s: Louisiana Purchase was a land deal for the united states to France.
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The 1810s: Battle of New Orleans President going to war with British forces.
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The 1830s: Era of the Common Man Andrew Jackson had begun his term for the president.
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1854 — Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden
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1866 — The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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1872 — The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain
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Battle of the bighorn warriors being led
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1905 — The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution
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1916 — US Congress created the National Park Service
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women having rights 1925
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1939 German invading Poland
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The 1790s: Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest and ended in 1794.
