C. To show that duck and cover would protect a person during a bomb attack.
That answer doesn't make much sense to us now, but at the time of the 1951 <em>Duck and Cover </em>film released by the US Civil Defense office, that was the message the government was conveying to the American people.
If you look at the other options in the answer choices, all of them (A,B,D) are essentially saying the same thing -- that this was a method that would not work. So the only unique answer in the set -- which was the message from Civil Defense -- was that "duck and cover" was a helpful strategy in the event of a nuclear attack. Truthfully, it would not have been.
"The Plessy v. Ferguson case was important because it established the constitutionality of "separate but equal" laws, in which states segregated public services and accommodations for African-Americans and whites.<span> Decided in 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson dictated racial law throughout the country until Brown v."</span>
<span>The San Francisco de los Tejas was a mission built as a response to La Salle's in May of 1960 but unfortunately it failed due to multiple drought epidemics that led to killed crops and a fire burning down the mission.
Answer: B. Drought killed crops.</span>
The Indian Removal Act, signed by President Andrew Jackson (1830) authorized fair, voluntary and peaceful negotiations with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands.
However, US government often violently forced Native Americans to vacate their lands.
In 1831 the Choctaw became the first nation to be expelled from its land. Thousands of people died along the way.
In 1836, the federal government drove the Creeks from their land: 3,500 of the 15,000 Creeks did not survive the trip.
Period: 1775-1783
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the thirteen colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America.
