They proposed the confederation on November 15, 1777, but the states did not ratify them until March 1, 1781.
Answer:
Coastline--both Plymouth and Boston are located in Massachusetts on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The coastline of Massachusetts is rocky with sand beaches. The coastline provided by cities with a place to set up port making both cities trading posts for the colony and eventually the state. The coast also provided a vital fishing industry which brought income and food supply to Massachusetts.
Answer:
A.
Explanation:
The given projection of map is an example of Mercator projection with distorted land areas.
The Mercator projection of map was designed by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. The map projection is suitable for navigation purposes as it projects the northern countries in north and southern in south. Though the projection of land areas is distorted. The continent of Antartica is projected large in area and Greenland is projected smaller than Africa, which in reality is fourteen times larger than the continent.
Therefore, the correct answer is option A.
<span>On January 8, 1815, the British marched against New Orleans, hoping that by capturing the city they could separate Louisiana from the rest of the United States. Pirate Jean Lafitte, however, had warned the Americans of the attack, and the arriving British found militiamen under General Andrew Jackson strongly entrenched at the Rodriquez Canal. In two separate assaults, the 7,500 British soldiers under Sir Edward Pakenham were unable to penetrate the U.S. defenses, and Jackson’s 4,500 troops, many of them expert marksmen from Kentucky and Tennessee, decimated the British lines. In half an hour, the British had retreated, General Pakenham was dead, and nearly 2,000 of his men were killed, wounded, or missing. U.S. forces suffered only EIGHT KILLED and 13 wounded.</span>
