History 460 Final
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Updated: 9 Dec 2017
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Created byEmmet Battenberg
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Muir visits Yosemite for the first timeSierra Club formedGeorge Perkins Marsh publishes "Man and Nature"Forest Reserve Act gave presidnet power to set aside forest reservesGifford Pinchot bornPinchot appointed chief of the USDA Forestry DivisionPinchot publishes "The Fight for Conservation"Pinchot convinced Roosevelt to transfer federal reserve forests to newly created US Forest ServicePinchot released fight for conservation book;George Perkins Marsh releases Man and NatureHetch Hetchy Dam created in YosemiteSierra Club FoundedForest Reserve ActMount Auburn Cemetery builtSmall pox appearssmall pox aides cortes in conquest of aztec capital1837 mandan epidemicSome
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happenedhorses (brought from europe and escaped from colonists and native owners) are so abundant in western america that ranchers kill them to protect landCatskill mountain house Resort opens (people searching sublime of wilderness)Robert Fulton's Clermont steamboatErie Canal is finishedChicago's major fireNYC fireCholera reaches EuropeCholera reaches Montreal, first outbreak in USVon Thunens Isolated State (circles of land and relationships to markets)John Muir bornThree Mile Island; loss of coolant, freaked people out even though nuclear may be cleanerNYC's Central Park is completedCelia Thaxter's "Island Garden" flowers as fertility and feminine beauty, women as nurturers"Lobo King of Currumpaw" by Ernest Thompson SetonSeton creates "Woodcraft Indians"; teaches rural and suburban children outdoor indian skills; model for boy scoutsUS gave Yosemite to California as a state park at urging of OlmstedYellowstone becomes nation's first national parkAldo Leopold bornJD Rockefeller born; used some of his wealth to buy land and gave them to the nation so they could be protectedDobyns assumes mortality rate of 90% and a pre-Columbian North America Indians of 10-12 million, with pop of entire hemisphere 90-110 millionClavin Martin publishes "Keepers of the Game"San Francisco earthquakepopulations living in urban surpass ruralDavid Potters "People of Plenty" argued not about free land but about abundance of natural resourcesHJ Habakkuk's "American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century" talks about the difference between America and Europe in terms of abundance of labor and resources; America has resources but no labor, Europe vice versa; explanation of how technology developedLacey Act passedGarrett Hardin popularizes Fisherman's Problem by relabeling it "Tragedy of the Commons"Hetch Hetchy Dam approvedRachel Carson' "Silent Spring"Aldo Leopold's "Sand County Almanac"Pinchot persuades Roosevelt to transfer federal forest reserves from interior to USDA creating the new US forest service"midnight forests" Roosevelt forced to sign away power to create new forest reserves; before he did so, he and Pnchot set aside 16 million acresconstruction of nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals Alabama to manufacture explosives for WW1FDR signs in law "Tennessee Valley Authority Act" creating the Tennessee Valley Authority TVA; created to modernize a depressed farming region with new highways, tools and appliances, instruction for farmersCCC created; groups of young men who would work on conservation measuresworst year of plains drought; 9 inches of rain the whole yearDaniel Burnhams Plan of Chicago; part of new town movement; creating suburbs based off of garden towns in England; combine agricultural and industrial labor without conflict"the population bomb" a pamphlet compared nuclear war to over population; neo-malthusianismarrival of first tourist automobile in Yellowstonefirst federal duck stampBob Marshall bornLBJ signs the Wilderness ActAtomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and NagasakiAtomic radiiation accident at Los AlamosSome
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happenedhole in ozone discoveredendangered species actDaisy nuclear ad for LBJ
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