During world war ii, why did japan strongly and passionately defend iwo jima? it was a strategic island in the philippines. it was a strategic base from which to attack australia. it was considered part of the japanese homeland. it was the only island that british forces had not captured.

you need to have LIGMA but...  The reason why most slave were denied to read was because most slave owners believed that teaching such skills was useless, if not dangerous. They assumed that slaves had no use for reading in their daily lives, and that literacy would make them more difficult to control, and more likely to run away. In this case slaves were get smarter and run away or obtain knowledge and use it against then. There was the fear of an educated black man. Ideas are a powerful thing and it would make them feel inferior to slaves.

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Option C) It was considered part of the Japanese homeland.

i believe the answer would be 1.