The Quebec Act was passed by Great Britain in 1774. Britain had gained the area in 1763 from France after the French and Indian War, and the Quebec Act created an effective administration of the area. It also expanded the size of Canada, and led to resentment by the 13 Colonies. The Canadians were primarily Catholic, and most colonists were extremely against Catholicism. The French living there also had a history of lacking a trial by jury, and the colonists believed the expansion of Canada was a ploy to influence courts in the colonies to lack the right to a trial by jury. This act in conjunction with the Intolerable Acts led to a large feeling of secession among the colonists.
The Ural Mountains and the Caucasus Mountains.
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Geodesy, the science of measuring the Earth's shape and positions on it, allows the measurement of plate motion directly using GPS, the Global Positioning System. This network of satellites is more stable than the Earth's surface, so when a whole continent moves somewhere at a few centimeters per year, GPS can tell.
GPS uses a system of satellites to triangulate the position of a receiver anywhere on Earth. By using a network of receivers near plate boundaries, scientists can very accurately determine how the plates behave
