The Kansas Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise (of 1820).
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B. The government is trying to clean the lakes and make their water safe for drinking again.
D. The people of China are insisting on the use of renewable energy.
These are the two sentences in the passage that talk about China's efforts to curb environmental degradation. The beginning of the passage states that China is a major pollutant, and that this has caused a lot of damage to its ecosystems. However, towards the middle part of the passage, the text discusses what things are changing in order to reduce this problem. The first strategy that is discussed is how the government is trying to clean lakes and rivers. The second one is that the population is protesting the use of fossil fuels and trying to encourage the use of renewable energy.
During the first few years of the Great Depression as people lost their jobs, homes, and farms they began to lay the blame for their poverty on the banks, since they had been irresponsible.
In the United States, it was mostly a rise in immigration that led to the call for the prohibition of alcohol, since many people believed that it was making people violent and unappealing. Women were at the forefront of this movement, which succeeded in prohibiting alcohol but failed at actually enforcing this ban, since people continued to drink anyway.
