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Important dates in U. S. history!!

By marissavehar12

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

    It was led by Franklin and attempts to regulate waste disposal and the water pollution.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Pursuit of liberty was made and was meaningful by the founding document of great American experiment in democracy.
  • Constitution of the United States of America

    Constitution of the United States of America

    People from the U.S. wanted justice to promote general Welfare and secure liberty to establish the Constitution of the United States of America.
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Whiskey Rebellion

    George Washington had sent troops to the western Pennsylvania in 1794 and to the Whiskey Rebellion by citizens who had refused to pay for liquor tax.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    The Louisiana Territory was the huge swath of land more than 800,000 square miles.
  • Battle of New Orleans

    Battle of New Orleans

    Decisively defeated the British forces in the Battle of New Orleans and even though the War of 1812 had actually already ended.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    The United States would not intervene with European affairs but European colonization in the Americas would European interference in the governments of the American hemisphere. So they both intervene with each other.
  • Era of the Common Man

    Era of the Common Man

    The Era of the common man was standards however by the U.S.was far from democratic. And was also called The Age Of Jacksonian Democracy.
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2. It ended the Mexican American war for the United States.

  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

    It was a piece of nature writing.
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg fought in February during the American civil war.

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

    The word ecology was coined by the german scientist by Ernst Heinrich. He also coined phylum, phylogeny and Protista.

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

    During his investigation of rainwater of chemistry it was near cities in England and Scotland.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson had a legal case in the U.S. supreme court and advanced separate but equal for segregation laws for people.

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

    Smog was for a meeting of the public health congress.

  • US Congress created the National Park Service

    US Congress created the National Park Service was an interior to promote and regulate the federal areas such known as the (National Park Service).

  • Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

    It was book that described environmental effects caused by indiscriminate.

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

    The first photograph of earth from the moon.

  • Earth Day – April 22., millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day organized by Gaylord Nelson, former senator of Wisconsin, and Denis Hayes, Harvard graduate student. US Environmental Protection Agency established

    A lot of people gathered in the U.S. for the earth day.

  • Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

    It was made to stop the production and import of ozone and to protect the earth ozone layers.

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

    Extends on climate change and to reduce gas emissions.

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

    Because of global warming and advances science on climate change.

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

    Global warming novel coronavirus pandemic and postponed most of the climate change.