Your answer is issued.. By 1960, the colony of Massachusetts issued its own coins and paper money.
Answer:
1) to convey that, with some effort, even a desert can be made home.
2) to convey that the evacuees' efforts transformed the barracks
Explanation:
The two options above focuses on how the evacuees turned things around for themselves in their new desert home by cheer determination to make the best of their desert situation.
Was is the linking verb (all forms of "be" are), state, told, and appeared are other verbs