Who was the marine biologist whose book Silent Spring spelled out how the insecticide DDT kills birds and other animals and causes sickness among humans, and who launched the modern environmental movement?
What will be an ideal response?
Rachel Carson
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The U.S. first peacetime military alliance was called the
A) North American Free Trade Agreement. B) United Nations. C) European Recovery Act. D) North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Victoria Woodhull and her sister were prominent advocates of
a. racial equality. b. public health. c. capitalism. d. woman suffrage. e. free love and feminism.
All of the following were causes for the War of 1812 EXCEPT
A) the British policy of seizing sailors, or impressments, from U.S. merchant ships and occasionally warships on the high seas. B) the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 and Macon's Bill No. 2. C) British political and military support for plans by Tecumseh to develop an all-Indian alliance to drive out all whites from south of Canada and from between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi. D) the effects on Great Britain of the implementation of the Embargo Act of 1807 by the United States.
What was Italy's political status by the fifteenth century?
a. It was a centralized state. b. It was dominated by the Papal States exclusively. c. It was the foremost European power. d. It was dominated by five major regional independent powers. e. It was Europe's largest republican democracy.