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>
Unlike the Byzantine Empire there was no single entity that could be called 'Western Europe'.
Commonalities:
However, there was one significant common trait among them. Both were seen as Christian lands where the Church held considerable power.
Both the cultures were extremely autocratic and theocratic in nature. The royal families held political power, while the church had religious influence among the people.
The society also had a fixed hierarchy the aristocrats at the top, followed by business people and soldiers and eventually the serfs who worked on the lands of the gentry.
Answer:
basically the british were trying to assert their dominace and they were trying to pay off the 7 years war. the colonies would boycot british goods to try to get around the taxes, forcing the british to repeal them then the british would implement the next tax.