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It was a time where ideas where getting implemented that would change the economy and further us into a industrial time -
Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution. -
It was the revolution that made it so That America was now its own country and would no longer be with England -
Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden -
fought by the Union and confederates would grant freedom to the slaves and would stop the split in the country -
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 -
America would join the war after Germany would destroy our ships causing us to join and a lot of America to lose their life -
this would limit the use of alcohol which would great civil unrest and would cause people to stand up to the laws -
Our economy would fall at this point in time causing a bunch of people to become jobless and our lowest point for our country economy -
America would join at the end of the war and was the turning point for the axis powers causing them to lose and for us to gain victory -
It wasn't a physical war but would case us to fight Russia in getting technological advances faster which almost lead to a nuclear war -
Rachel Carson publishes 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 -
A war that was a controversial war that was fought to stop Vietnam from becoming a communist country which many Americans were drafted for -
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 -
America would attack Iraq after a terrorist attack and would go on to be a long war which lead to a lot of Americans losing their lives -
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