Which of the following is true in describing the Battle of Gallipoli?
a. All of the answers are correct.
b. The alliance with Germany was an Ottoman effort to avoid losing important straits that connected the Black and Mediterranean Seas.
c. British forces met harsh resistance at Gallipoli and eventually withdrew after 250,000 casualties.
d. Gallipoli was part of the Southern Front, in the Middle East and North Africa.
e. Gallipoli was important to the Ottomans, who feared Russian and British expansion into the area.
a
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a. it provided the most efficient military system. b. it organized colonies. c. only the polis provided law and justice. d. thepolis was more efficient than the city-state.
The eighteenth-century agricultural revolution in Britain reduced the cost of food, thus giving the British extra income to purchase items produced by the Industrial Revolution
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
After taking command of the southern campaign for the Americans, Nathanael Greene
a. instructed his troops to follow a scorched-earth policy. b. systematically seized the property of loyalists throughout the South. c. adopted a conciliatory policy toward loyalists and neutrals throughout the South. d. destabilized civilian governments throughout the area.
In the "Freeport Doctrine,"
a. the Supreme Court ruled that residence in Freeport, Illinois, did not automatically free runaways. b. Stephen Douglas suggested that the territories could maintain popular sovereignty by refusing to protect slavery there. c. Abraham Lincoln agreed that there was no means of preventing the extension of slavery. d. Stephen Douglas insisted that slavery was legal in all the free states and territories. e. slaves who escaped to the North were declared free.