The monitor defeated the merrimac at hampton roads in the war's first naval battle. truefalse

False

Explanation:

The statement would be false due to the fact at Hampton Roads, neither ship inflicted damage unto the opposing effectively.  Due to the lack of power on either side regarding their ironclad ships, this marked a new era in naval warfare and both the Confederacy and the Union strove to achieve greater heights with their naval advances.

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explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.