France lost its mainland possessions to North America
Heliocentric means that B. The Earth and other planets all orbit around the Sun. This is because the Sun has a very strong gravitational pull, which makes the other planets orbit around it. Without the Sun to keep the planets in an orbit, they would go flying into space. We always thought the Sun was the one who went around us, because that was our only perspective until telescopes and spacecrafts came around. :D
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The National Origins Acts created a preference for immigrants from "Northern and Western Europe," since it greatly reduced the number of immigrants who could immigrate to the US from Asia and Eastern Europe.