The Great Leap Forward, intended to be a five-year effort, was halted in 1960 after three brutal years. The initiative is said to have cost an estimated 20 to 48 million lives as a result of catastrophic economic policy, compounded by adverse weather conditions including a flood that killed 2 million people and the subsequent crop failures that led to starvation. In addition to the fatalities, the Great Leap Forward had negative environmental impacts as communes were encouraged to set up "backyard" production plants for needed supplies such as steel, timber and cement. In 1960, an extensive drought further added to the country's troubles.
There are rocky coastlines along the Atlantic, harbors, coastal lowlands, and uplands. The many capes, bays, lakes, wetlands, and rivers support the fishing industry. New England also boasts the Appalachian Mountains and Connecticut River Valley!
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Stars scattered out on the pale dark lavender sky, below the town become silent, wistful wind blew carrying the eerily sound of the night. I gulped, tears streaming down my bloodied, disfigured face. I'm going to die and no one will know how, why and by who I will be served death. I inhaled the sweet air, chuckled and then the door creeked.
During the early nineteenth century, the Jeffersonian Party's base of strength was in the south
The party was formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison around 1792. It was opposed to the centralizing policies of the new Federalist Party as it believed that a strong central government posed a threat to liberty
