<span>The voting age was decreased from 21 to 18 because it was thought this would lead to less protesting by students. Before the age was lowered, there were young men being drafted, but they were not old enough to vote.</span>
Answer and Explanation:
a. A historical similarity was the increase in the size of the USA. This promoted a larger and more imposing territory on the world stage, but it also presented disadvantages such as some problems in managing such a large territory and government spending, which were resolved over time.
b. A historical difference was that the Northwest Territory was obtained through a treaty with strictly political objectives, on the other hand, the acquisition of Louisiana was made through a purchase, which in addition to also having political objectives, imposing a federal expense.
c. One of the main differences is that Louisiana was sold by the French government, which encouraged a whole period of adaptation of the place to American culture and politics. On the other hand, the northwestern territory established a territorial difference due to the existence of civil freedom and freedom of blacks.
Louis XVI (Louis-Auguste; French pronunciation: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to as Citizen Louis Capet during the four months just before he was guillotined. In 1765, upon the death of his father, Louis, Dauphin of France, he became the new Dauphin. Upon his grandfather Louis XV's death on 10 May 1774, he assumed the title King of France and Navarre, until 4 September 1791, when he received the title of King of the French until the monarchy was abolished on 21 September 1792.
"O Little Town of Bethehem" is a familiar Christmas hymn about the birth of Jesus Christ. But the number of Christians in Bethlehem itself has been getting littler and littler as the Christian community there and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa has faced pressures from Islamist movements.
In 1950, about 85% of Bethlehem's residents were Christian. By 2016, the Christian presence in Bethlehem had dropped to 12% -- or only about 11,000 persons.
