History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2131 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Santa Barbara and the Cuyahoga
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The idea
In nineteen sixty-nine an oil spill devastated the coast near Santa Barbara, California, and that summer the Cuyahoga River, choked with industrial pollutants, caught fire, the Yawp records.
In practice
A river on fire, and oil washing onto California beaches.
Where people slip
Americans had had enough, the Yawp says, and the protest came the next spring.
Your place on the trail
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