"<span>C) It held homesteaders responsible for contributing to the completion of the transcontinental railroad" is not true, since the act had to do only with land acquisition.
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The main reason why American soldiers used Agent Orange was to eliminate the forrest coverings in Vietnam during the war, in order to eliminate the hiding spots of the enemy.
Voltaire Voltaire
French writer and philosopher
Answer: The earliest known script, the Mesopotamian cuneiform was invented in Sumer, present-day Iraq, circa 3200 BC. It is the origin of our present-day alphabet and it was uninterruptedly used for over a period of 10,000 years as its prehistoric antecedent.
Explanation: The evolution of the cuneiform script is divided into four phases: Clay tokens representing units of goods were used for accounting purposes (8000–3500 BC). The three-dimensional tokens were transformed into two-dimensional pictographic signs, similarly to the tokens, the pictographic script served exclusively for accounting (3500–3000 BC). Phonetic syllabic signs initially introduced to write down the names of individuals marked the turning point when writing started imitating spoken language and, as a result, became applicable to all fields of human knowledge (3000–1500 BC). With two dozen letters, each standing for a single sound of voice, the alphabet perfected the interpretation of speech.
Hieroglyphic writing, which appeared at the end of the 4th millennium, was a complex system of phonetic signs corresponding to one or more consonants, ideograms objects or abstract concepts, and determinatives that determine the words. These specified their semantic categories (e.g. man, woman). Hieratic script, which arose in parallel time with the hieroglyphics, is the “cursive” format of hieroglyphics for easy use in daily and private matters, where appearance was less important than writing speed. These writings were used simultaneously for many centuries until the beginning of the 26th dynasty (664–30 BC), when a third one was introduced, the demotic script. Hieroglyphs from then on were used for monumental inscriptions, whereas religious texts were written in hieratic script, and the demotic script became that of the public administration and private documents.
1. Committees of Correspondence- wrote back and fourth and helped each other
2. Magna Carta- document that gave English men many rights
3. Mercantilism- sell more than you buy and prosper
4. Stamp Tax- had to buy a british stamp
5. Townshend Taxes- taxes on lead glass paper paint and tea
6. Boston Tea Party- threw 342 chests of tea into the water
7. Firebrand- a hot head
8. Samuel Adams- started the committees of correspondence
9. Sons of Liberty- secret society to oppose British policies
10. Thomas Paine- wrote common sense
11. Common Sense- roused many colonists for independence
12. Patrick Henry- member of the house of burgesses
13. Patriot- wanted to be free of British rule
14. Quarters- house for soldiers
15. Loyalist- supported the king
16. Congress- group of delegates
17. Redcoat- british solider
