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American Environmental History Midterm
People, places, dates, laws, etc. Everything I need to know.
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History
Undergraduate 2
10/20/2009

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Stephen Birch
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Formed Alaskan Syndicate with Guggenheim and Morgan capital
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1st copper shipment from Kennecott
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1911
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Mines close in Kennecott
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1938
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First Library on UW
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1878 in Old Music Hall
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Constructed in 1950
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Memorial Library
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1969
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Helen C. White was constructed
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Dewey Decimal System
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1876
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1880
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Cutter Expansive classification style
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1/3 of Europe wiped out in four years
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Black Death
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Alfred Crosby
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Co-invaders, Neo-Europeans, Eco-Imperialism
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Henry David Thoreau
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Concord, On Walden Pond, Emerson disciple
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Farmer's Almanac
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Zodiac symbols, show changing season, cycles
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Erie Canal
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completed construction 1825
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Power source, transportation, where cities are located, to drink, crops, manufacturing, fire fighting, place where diseases spread, floods
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water
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Robert Fulton
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Steamboat Engine 1807
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Oliver Evan
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Improved mill
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Lowell
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Boston Manufacturing Company at Waltham, 1813
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Winslow Homer
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"Morning Bell" country to city
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Thomas Newcomen
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single cylinder in 1705
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Condenser 1765
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James Watt
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Fires
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NYC 1776 and 1835, Chicago 1871, San Francisco Earthquake 1906
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Cholera
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1831
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Edward Jenner
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1798 Small Pox vaccine made
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1895 finds malaria protozoan
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Ronald Ross
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1905 New Orleans
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Last epidemic
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Thomas Cole
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"View From Mount Holyoke" 1826 (the oxbow)
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"Course of Empire"
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1833-6, four part painting by Thomas Cole
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Mountain is the witness
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Thomas Cole's paintings
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Claude Lorraine
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1600s set tone for all romantic artists with style
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John Martin
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"The Bard" 1817 poet as lone prophet in sublime landscape of wilderness
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Emerson
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"Nature" 1836 as manifesto of transcendentalism
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William Wordsworth
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Moment on Simplon Pass in prelude as representation of romantic sublime thoughts
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Edmund Burke
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"Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" 1757
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William Blake
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Attacks Newton on mechanized universal thought--Destroyed the poetry of the rainbow.
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Catskill Mountain House
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1823 place for people to escape the city
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William Gilpin
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1792 "Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape"
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Niagra Falls
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Most important romantic landscape of Americas because Europe didn't have it
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Urban population passes rural
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1920
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Von Thunen Model
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1826, theory of ringed agricultural practices. A model city and it's surrounding area.
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David Potter
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"People of Plenty" 1954
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H.J. Habbakkuk
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"American and British Technology" 1962
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Frederic Church
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"Twilight in the Wilderness" and "Olana" shows domestication of sublime--no longer terrifying but mystically beautiful
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Albert Bierstadt, Fitz Hugh Lane, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, Asher Durand
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Painters of picturesque landscape... muddled line between the sublime and the beautiful
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George Inness
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"Lackawanna Valley" 1855 with rail road connecting the background to the foreground
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Jared Eliot
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"Essays Upon Field Husbandry" 1748-59
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The Farmer's Calendar
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Arthur Young
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Bernard M'Mahon
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American Gardner's Calendear, 1806
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Solon Robinson
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Eventual USDA founder
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Jesse Buel
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Founded "The Cultivator" 1838
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Peter Henderson
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Gardening for Profit 1866
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Capital Investments in Farm Technology
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class conflict between "progressive" and "non-progressive" farmers
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C.M. Hovey
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"The Hovey" as the perfect strawberry 1838
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Number of bison in 1865
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15 million
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Number of bison in 1889
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about 1000
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Last died in 1914
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Passenger Pidgeons
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Henry William Herbert
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"Frank Forester" who basically wrote the ethics of hunting
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George Bird Grinnell
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Sportsmanike values promoted by sporting press; founded Audobon Society, friends with Roosevelt (Boone & Crocket Club)
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Lacey Act
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Provided interstate regulation of game sales
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Anadromous Fish
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spend life in ocean, but mate up freshwater stream for safety (Salmon, Herring)
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Peak of salmon shipping
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1882, 12 million pounds
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Arthur McEvoy
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The Fisherman's Problem
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Garrett Hardin's 1968
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fisherman's problem as "Tragedy of the Commons" competitive farmers add cattle to common pasture until it' destroyed
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Underwater Ranch
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Oysters
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"Two-Acre" law
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Connecticut law of plotting out oyster farms
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Reasons for killing whales
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oil is energy for lighting, baleen for umbrellas and corset
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End of whaling
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PA petroleum in late 1850s, 1907 end of corset fashion
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