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philadelphia committee
Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution. -
Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth
First womens right convection organized by women, held in New york at the Seneca Falls Convention, with 300 attendees. Eventually leading to the passage of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote. -
Speech at women rights convention
Sojourner Truth delivers her famous "aint I a Women?' Speech at the Womens Rights convection in Akron, Ohio. “And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well!...ext" -
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden -
ecology
The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel -
First Womens suffrage law
The legislature of the territory of Wyoming passes A mericas first womans suffrage law, granting women the right to vote and hold office. -
acid rain
The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain -
Smog
The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution -
US Congress
US Congress created the National Park Service -
Suffrage Movement, 19th Amendment
Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the United States, Located in Brownsville, Brookly, her clinic was deemed illegal under the "comstock laws" forbidding birth control. Clinic was raided october 26, 1916. -
Jennetter Rankin
Jeannette Rankin of montana, a longtime activist with the National Woman Suffrage Association. -
ratification of 19th amendment
Ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is completed, declaring "the right of citizens of the united states vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United states or by ant state on account of sex." -
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman, and the second pilot ever to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic. -
The Alaska Equal Rights Act is signed into law
The act is the first state or territorial anti-discrimination law enacted in the United States in the 20th century. Elizabeth peratrovich, a Tlingit woman who was Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, spearheaded the effor tio end discrimination against alaska Natives and other non-white residents. -
Rosa Parks, Civil Rights, Equal pay
Black seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to white man on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. The move helps launch civil rights movement. -
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring -
President John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy signs into law the Equal Pay Act into law, prohibithing sex- based wage discrimination between men and women performing the same job in the same workplace. -
Apollo
he Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise -
— First Earth Day –
April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established -
Montreal Protocol
Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force -
The Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide -
U.S. rejects the kyoto Protocol
potential damage to the US economy -
U.S. announces...
U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation -
U.S. announces...Again
U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation