Despite Britain being relatively small country it manged to become the largest empire the world has ever seen, controlling territories on all continents in the world except for Antarctica. The reasons behind the British success were multiple, but all related with the high level of development. The British were the ones that invented and started the industrialization, which made them economic superpower. They managed to create lot of new inventions, which helped them a lot in making their military much more advanced, having superior weaponry, and equipment. Also, this empire managed to become a political superpower as well, using the politics in its advantage and being able to easily outsmart the others.
Indeterminate sentencing model is characterized primarily by vast judicial choice. It builds on the belief that convicted offenders are more likely to participate in their own rehabilitation if such participation will reduce the amount of time that they have to spend in prison. However, indeterminate sentencing may lead in inequity and sentences influenced by race, gender, or social class. It also may produce much shorter imprisonment than the sentence on its face would indicate.
A) <span>On this day in 1956, the U.S. Congress approves the Federal Highway Act, which allocates more than $30 billion for the construction of some 41,000 miles of interstate highways; it will be the largest public construction project in U.S. history to that date.</span>
Answer:
b. religious persecution of the Protestant peasants
c. heavy taxation and seizure of property by the warring factions
Explanation:
The Scotch-Irish Americans were American descendants of the Protestants who migrated to America during the 18th and 19th centuries. These immigrants came to America through Philadelphia and Delaware. Then, they then moved inland and simply claimed the vacant land they saw. However, their movement was a result of many factors. Of these factors, two factors are prominent:
The high rents and religious persecution are often cited as the push and pull factors. Some of the people had their properties heavily taxed. Others, were persecuted by the church at that time.
