Answer A. The Cotton Industry
Between 1880 and 1900, cities in the United States grew at a dramatic rate. Owing most of their population growth to the expansion of industry, U.S. cities grew by about 15 million people in the two decades before 1900. Many of those who helped account for the population growth of cities were immigrants arriving from around the world.
Industrial expansion and population growth radically changed the face of the nation's cities. The industrial revolution based basically on the cotton industry was most attractive to the new immigration from the east.
The action taken by the first continental was that they voted to boycott all trade with Britain until Parliament stopped taxing the colonies.
The first major accomplishment that this congress had was that they voted that all British goods be boycotted in the colonies until the intolerable acts were overturned.
They also voted not to buy British goods or sell any good from the colonies to the British. This boycott was a way of showing their many grievances to the British who were taxing, and enforcing a lot of restrictions on them.
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Russian often claimed to be an heir to : Roman and Byzantine empire
They made this claim based on the continuity of orthodox church in Russia after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 , and based on their ambition to rule in European continent
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