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The Natie American population is at about 24,000.
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Italian Giovanni da Verrazano is the first European to arrive in the Chesapeake Bay.
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The first english settlers arrive in Jamestown, Virginia. There they set up settlement.
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Captain John Smith sets off in two voyages around the bay to draw a very detailed map.
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The colonists of Jamestown and other settlements start clear cutting wooded areas, causing runoff.
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Virginia lawmakers pass a new law to prevent wasteful fishing practices in many rivers and Colonists begin to harvest oysters.
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Farms from the eastern shore produce more run off in the bay's waters.
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More sediment erioson resulting in dirty water and pollution.
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Gerneral George Washington and the Continental Army defeat Lord Cornwallis and the Brtish Army at Yorktown, Virginia.
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New England watermen come to the Cheasepke Bay with a new device that scoops out oyster beds.
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Trains, steamboats and canals are built in the watershed making transportaion easier
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Half of the watersheds forestes have been cut down for resources and creating more erosion.
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Sewer systems carry humans waste and dump the waste in the bay.
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The first confederate and federal ironclads the CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor battle in Hampton Roads, Virginia where it came to a draw with both ships heavily damaged, with the CSS Virginia retuning to port and the USS Monitor heading back out of the bay.
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The USS Monitor sinks of the coast of Cape Hatteras and is lost for over 100 years.
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20 million buschels of oysters are pulled out of the bay.
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80% of the forests are clear cut and making more runoff.
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A dramatic drop in oyster populations starts to affect Chesapeake Bay health, Scientists begin question the impact of human behavior on the Bay.
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The Conowingo Dam is started to be built in the Susquehanna River
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The Dam is a hydroelectric dam that makes power.
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Msx is a diseases that kill oysters that ruined the population.
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The Clean Air Act is law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It requires the EPA to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants known to be hazardous to human health.
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The USS Monitor that had sunk over 100 years ago was found of the coast of Cape Hatteres.
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The turent of the ship is raised along with the engine and th propeller.
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Maryland and Virginia issue emergency regulations on the harvest of blue crabs to help the species recover. The bay’s blue crab fishery is declared a federal disaster.
