What are some ways land was reclaimed from the environment in the sixteenth and seventeenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Reclaimed land
1. land reclamation complemented the struggle to settle new frontiers
2. Holland
a. terrible losses of lands to the encroaching sea
b. reclamation became a matter of survival
c. new windmill-pumping technology drained 57,000 acres of land
d. Dutch added nearly 370,000 acres to the land available for
farming
3. England
a. drainage of the fenlands
b. project brought about 480,000 acres under the plow by the early
1650s
4. Japan
a. government-sponsored schemes drained the Yodfo River delta
b. transformed from "a marshy plain of water birds" to an area
with hundreds of villages
c. cultivated land area of Japan grew by 82 percent between 1600
and 1720
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The United States launched its first major offensive against Japan and captured __________.
a. Midway b. Guadalcanal c. Hiroshima d. Iwo Jima
Why did the Israeli Army invade Lebanon in 1982?
A) The head of the PLO Yasser Arafat called for the destruction of the Jewish state and used terrorism for its cause. B) To clear out PLO in refugee camps C) To stop the civil war in Lebanon between Christians and Muslims D) To install a democratic government to bring peace to the territory E) All of these
Women who worked outside of the home in the 1920s
What will be an ideal response?
During Washington’s second term in office, __________ thrust foreign affairs into the forefront of American life.
a. an Indian uprising b. war in Europe c. an international financial crisis d. the threat of a Spanish invasion in the South