Which statement describes the significant environmental battle spearheaded by the San Francisco Bay Association in 1961?
a. Shoreline construction along the bay of garbage dumps, an airport, housing tracts and industrial parks threatened the existence of the bay, and the group wanted to prevent its disappearance.
b. Residents in the communities around San Francisco Bay organized to support the California Water Project, hoping that it would reverse the salinization of the fresh water in the delta caused by overuse of water by Central Valley farmers.
c. Residents in the communities around San Francisco Bay organized to fight for better air quality.
d. The use of pesticides and fertilizers by growers in the delta region was starting to pollute the waters of the bay, and the group organized to pressure the state government to regulate the use of these chemicals.
a
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Which of the following was true of Maria Theresa?
A) She chose to divide her empire into provinces in order to decentralize the government. B) Under her leadership, Austria won Silesia during the War of the Austrian Succession. C) She abdicated in favor of her son Joseph when he came of age in 1780. D) Contemporaries suggested the empress regretted that she selected Joseph over his brother Leopold. E) She modernized the armed forces and civil bureaucracy of Austria.
Members of the American Party feared Catholic immigrants of the 1840s and 1850s would
A) give their highest loyalty to the pope. B) refuse to work for low wages. C) continue to support revolutionary causes in Europe. D) favor legislation restricting personal behavior.
Shi'ite Islam differs from other factions in its support of a. the Abbasid Caliphate b. Mamluk independence
c. the Umayyad Caliphate d. religious toleration of non-Muslims. e. a separation of Sharia and civil law.
Tribal nations west of the Mississippi blended traditional cultural practices, including common land systems, with western practices including which of the following?
a. Constitutional governments b. Public schools c. Slavery d. All of the above