APES CHAPTER 2

Environmental History Learning from the Past

Due Date: ______________________________

KEY TERMS

1. agricultural revolution
2. Conservation Era
3. Environmental Era
4. Environmental Protection Agency
5. Frontier Era
6. hunter-gatherers
7. industrial-medical revolution
8. slash-and-burn cultivation
9. Tribal Era

CASE STUDY

1. Aldo Leopold: Land Ethic
2. American Bison Near Extinction
3. Rachel Carson

LEGISLATION

1. Endangered Species Act
2. Federal Land Policy and Management Act
3. Kyoto Treaty
4. Wilderness Act

OBJECTIVES

1. Define three major cultural and environmental changes that have occurred since humans were hunter-gatherers.

2. Describe the environmental history of the United States in terms of the Tribal and Frontier Eras, the Early Conservation Era, and the Environmental Era.

3. Compare slash-and-burn agricultural practices with the modern advanced forms of farming. State the advantages and disadvantages of each.

4. List individuals who made major contributions to conservation/environmental movements in the United States and briefly describe these contributions.

5. Define environmental backlash. Briefly describe the effects of this backlash.

6. Summarize the key environmental events of the 1980s in the U.S.

7. Compare and contrast the environmental policies of the Clinton administration and the two Bush administrations.

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