The answer is B. The people vote does count and matter but in the end the electoral college is the one to cast votes and elect our president.
The sugar act helped make America pay for the French and Indian war which was flights on their territory.
Commodore Perry's arrival in Japan in 1853 resulted in factors that led to the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The anti-foreign sentiment was directed against the shogun as well as against foreigners in Japan. The Satsuma and Choshu clans united to bring down the shogun, and in 1867, they did so.