This is <em>exactly</em> what we are learning in History at our school too.
Answer:
The colonists protested taxation by: Colonists would boycott British goods; why did they boycott British goods? Because the colonists weren't happy with Great Britain because of the French and Indian War; Great Britain had to pay the war debts.
As new magma cools and new rock is created the plates move farther and farther apart. But on the other end of the plate the plate subduction under the other plate making fresh magma and starting the cycle a new. The earth doesn’t increase in size due to the law of conservation of mass.
Just took the test. The answer was b, production of religious texts in non-Latin languages.
I think the only real belief system that literally everyone must have in common is that we have the ability to create thoughts. That's pretty much it.