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Interest groupa re voluntary organizations with a common cause, whose members seek to influence public policy. A political party on the other hand is a group of persons organized to acquire and exercise political power.
Interest groups are concerned with the policies of government, while political parties are concerned with the personnel of government.
The correct answer is the first option, Vespucci. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer who studied the work of Ptolemy and, in doing so, found that if Asia was as far east as Columbus had thought it was, it would cover half the Earth. He not only discovered that Asia was in fact smaller than what Columbus had thought it was, but also that the size of the Earth was much bigger than what most people thought it to be.
The protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.
