Timeline assignment

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

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    Revolutionary war

    The war for freedom and independence of America
  • Signing of the Declaration of Independence

    Signing of the Declaration of Independence

    The founding fathers have signed a declaration of war with England
  • creation of the first guitar

    creation of the first guitar

    It was developed by Christian Frederick Martin, a German-born American luthier who made his first guitar in the United States in the 1830s.

  • Henry David Thoreau published Walden

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    The civil war

    The war between north and south of America for slavery.

  • 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

  • creation of the internal combustion engine

    creation of the internal combustion engine

    George Brayton invented the first commercial liquid-fueled internal combustion engine.
  • The creation of cocoa cola

    The creation of cocoa cola

    People mixed sugar and water to get soda
  • The invention of a car

    The invention of a car

    The Model T was introduced to the world in 1908.

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

  • creation of grocery stores

    creation of grocery stores

    The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders, an inventor and entrepreneur.

  • US Congress created the National Park Service

  • creation of the 40 hour work week

    creation of the 40 hour work week

    Henry Ford popularized the 40-hour work week after he discovered through his research that working more yielded only a small increase in productivity that lasted a short period of time.
  • he first rocket to be launch

    he first rocket to be launch

    Rocket was created and was launched

  • Rachel Carson published Silent Spring

  • The 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 on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

  • 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

  • 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