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Robert Moton investigated racial abuses at Greenville during one of these events, but his report was suppressed in a deal with Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. In the American Red Cross’s first major relief effort, Clara Barton responded to one of these events that was caused by Henry Clay Frick’s (*) South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. The Pennsylvania city of Johnstown was obliterated by one of these events. The largest loss of life during (-5[1])Hurricane Katrina was caused by one of these events (10[1])due to the bursting of levees. (10[2])For 10 points, name these disasters in which large areas of land are submerged under water. ■END■

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