Answer:
d. The Lusitania was sunk in 1917.
Explanation:
This statement is wrong. The Lusitania, a British trasatlantic passenger ship, was sunk in 1915, not in 1917, by a German submarine. It is one of the causes of the United States entering WWI.
Answer:
Owning intellectual property helps you protect from others using something identical or similar to your creation, brand or product, and can also create new sources of revenue should you desire to license your goods or services out to third parties.
Explanation:
Initially, you might want to look at how little America does produce- what could we even offer to a nation that produces almost everything. Another reason why Americans may be at a disadvantage with trading with China is due to our HUGE trade deficit- we owe so much money. On top of that, taxes on things being traded can be used against nations, if we traded with China and they raised the tax on imports than it could impact us very negatively.
Rubber is coagulated sap; the French word for it, Cãoutchouc, comes from a South American Indian word meaning "the wood that weeps." The wood that weeps in the Congo was a long spongy vine of the Landolphia genus.