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Important dates in U.S history

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  • Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

    Franklin's will stipulated the construction of a fresh water pipeline for Philadelphia, which led to the formation of the Philadelphia Water Commission.
  • Declaration of independence

    Declaration of independence

    it states three basic ideas 1 God made all men equal and gave them the rights f life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 2 The main business of government is to protect these rights. 3 If a government tries to withhold these rights the people are free to revolt
  • Constitution of the United States of America

    Constitution of the United States of America

    We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Whiskey Rebellion

    1794 uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
  • Battle of New Orleans

    Battle of New Orleans

    referred to by many historians as the greatest American land victory of the war. American troops, led by future President Andrew Jackson, defeated the much larger British force, which bolstered U.S. hopes for a speedy end to the war.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
  • Era of the Common Man

    Era of the Common Man

    has been celebrated as the era of the "common man." The period clearly lives up to this characterization because of the role of man in government.

  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

  • battle of Gettysburg

    battle of Gettysburg

    an army of northern Virginia sustained a defeat so devastating that it sealed the fate of the confederacy and its peculiar institution.

  • The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

  • The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain

  • The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution

  • US Congress created the National Park Service

  • stock market crash

    stock market crash

    a collapse of stock prices that began on October 24, 1992. by October 29, 1929, the dow jones industrial average had dropped by 24% marking one of the worst declines in U.S history.

  • Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • Assassination of MLK

    Assassination of MLK

    A historical time when African Americans were on a mission to claim more rights and which they did. Robert F Kennedy in remarks on the assassination argues that through tough times, no matter the color of ones skin the nation needs to come together and support each other.

  • 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 on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

  • The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

  • U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

  • U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation