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The especially harsh winter of 1777-1778 put the American army to the test, and hundreds of the 11,000 troops posted at Valley Forge died of disease. The suffering soldiers, on the other hand, were kept together by their devotion to the Patriot cause and to General Washington, who remained with his men.
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A. Union: Abraham Lincoln; Confederacy: Jefferson Davis
Explanation:
Jefferson Davis is known for being an important military leader in the Confederacy. By process of elemination, it is A.
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Strom Thumond 24-hour speech set the record for the Senate's longest filibuster speech.
Filibuster is the action of preventing the voting a passage of a bill by spending time delivering speeches. A Congress usually has time limits for approving of disapporving bills, and filibuster can be effective in preventing the bill from being voted on time.
Senator Strom Thurmond delivered this speech to keep the Civil Rights Act from being approved, in the end, he lost his bid and president Johnson Sanctioned the act in 1964.
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The cocktail party effect
Explanation:
The cocktail party effect is observed in the brain's ability to drive out all other noise, and focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus
This is sort of selective attention in the brain. It is analogous to when one is in a party and is able to focus on a single conversation amid the noise from the music and people. The brain decides which stimuli is most important to it and then reacts to it.
