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Parliament, outraged by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, in 1774. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British. on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress officially adopted the Declaration of Independence. Five years later, in October 1781, British General Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered to American and French forces at Yorktown, Virginia, bringing to an end the last major battle of the Revolution. With the signing of the Treaty of Paris with Britain in 1783, the United States formally became a free and independent nation.
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Brandenburg v. Ohio US
Supreme Court decision maintains that seditious speech -- including speech that constitutes an incitement to violence--is protected by the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution as long as it does not indicate an imminent threat.
Explanation:
It was primarily the pursuit of gold that led not only Portugal but most other European nations to invest in expeditions to the New World, since the Spanish were so successful at bringing back vast amounts of gold to Europe.
The correct answer is gypsum.
Indeed, as the name indicates it, gypsum is used in the production of plaster, fertilizer, soil conditioner, cement, food additives, etc.
Gypsum has been used for millennia in China as an ingredient of traditional Chinese medicine and in the Middle Ages as a component of gesso (a white paint used for artworks of several kinds).
It would be "A. the Sahara, which is hot and dry," that would be considered a physical characteristic of the world, since this is part of the earth itself, while the other options are the list were made by humans.
