Answer:
I think it's A, but don't mark my words...
Definitely not B
The Stamp Act and Quartering Acts were introduced (a huge tax on all printable objects and placing soldiers in colonists' homes, respectively)
Mark Twain used the term "gilded" to refer to theappearance of the period being wonderful while underneath it wasbase and worthless in the same manner that gilded (gold plated)lead can appear to be gold but ut remains worthless.
One possible answer would be that one could expect China to be embracing more capitalistic trade and enterprise, since this shift from more socialist structures is what is needed to thrive in a globalized economy.
