Compare and contrast the effects of fourteenth century climate change in Europe and the Americas
What will be an ideal response?
A. Climate change similarities in Europe and the Americas
1. changes affected weather
2. disrupted habitation and agriculture
a. experienced increased mortality and population loss
3. changes in population and abandoning of lands and cities
a. productive lands in Europe abandoned
b. relocation of the Hohokam people in American southwest
B. Differences in how they were affected
1. Europe dealt with flooding and increased rainfall
a. freezing of the Thames river in London
b. flooding drowns coastal villages in Norway and Denmark
2. American southwest
a. less rainfall and water
b. cities were completely abandoned
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A. a major French army in the Caribbean had been decimated by disease. B. he believed the Louisiana Territory was a "great desert" unfit for habitation. C. the British had threatened to invade the territory. D. he wanted full control of the port of New Orleans in exchange. E. he needed the United States to contribute military forces on the continent in his war against Britain.
During World War I, West-European governments
a. sought to strengthen free-market capitalism. b. nationalized transportation systems and industries. c. tried to avoid using women as workers in heavy industry, taking steps to protect their status within the home. d. made sure food supplies were plentiful. e. resisted imposing price, wage, and rent controls.
How did the federal government raise most of the money for the war effort during the First World War?
a. By raising tariff rates b. By raising income taxes c. By imposing a national sales tax d. By borrowing
As secretary of war, John Floyd of Virginia shipped tons of war materiel to the South in order to aid the infant Confederacy
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.