The Tories were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Between the 1670s and 1830s, the Tories contested power with their rivals, the Whigs.
During the Holocaust, millions of Jews were put in concentration camps. This resulted in millions of deaths. After Nazi Germany was defeated by the Allied forces in 1945, the Jews who lived through the atrocities wanted a safe place to live. The British Mandate of Palestine was a strip of land in the middle east that Jewish people considered their "homeland." The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine declared that the British Mandate of Palestine would would be split into two new countries: Israel and Palestine. The Partition Plan passed through the United Nations. Israel declared independence soon after.
The correct answer should be D. an urban unit with clear boundaries and a degree of autonomy
A has to be a town, even though the definitions of the two are almost the same. B is not it because a city can be an industrial center, not a cultural one. C is not it because natural geographic boundaries are not necessary.
By 1657, Nathaniel Batts had a house at the western end of Albemarle Sound on Salmon Creek. Batts was a fur trader, explorer, and Indian interpreter. He became the first recorded European to settle permanently in North Carolina in 1655.
<span>The Spanish American War of 1898 took place in the island
nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The Americans were able to defeat the Spanish
in the Battle of Manila Bay. They scored
wins against the Spanish in Cuba with the Battle of San Juan Hill. Americans had difficulty in Puerto Rico as
both sides had difficulty during the fighting that came to an end when an
armistice was signed. Later the Treaty
of Paris was signed on December 10, 1898
and the war came to an end. The U.S.
gained the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico.
The Americans also establish a naval bay at Guantanamo Bay.</span>