If I'm remembering correctly, the First Continental Congress was a few years after the Boston Massacre and was prompted by the Coercive Acts, so it isn't D.
The tea party was also in response to the Tea Act, among other frustrations, so I don't think the answer is B either.
I believe that A refers to the battle at Lexington and Concord in 1775, but some people think that the first "shots" were during the Boston Massacre in 1770, so it could be A, but I don't know if that "officially" started anything.
If it isn't A I would guess C
U.S. interests are now global, therefore requiring interventionism. This question used to be able to have the answer of isolationism. That answer can no longer be accepted. There can only be practices of interventionism. The United States depends on international resources for international businesses that are at the heart of a modern information economy. The resources no longer only include goods and products that are manufactured, but the ability to control and manipulate the exchange of information globally. In order to do this, the U.S. has an obligation to be interventionist and the U.S. backs this up by deferring to an often despised control mechanism, military force.
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He was, in fact, sent down to Fort Scott because of Seminole retaliatory strikes against the United States in late 1817. General Jackson concluded that it was necessary for the United States to invade Spanish territory and forcibly take control of Pensacola, thereby dispersing (or killing) the Indians gathered there.
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The Zimmermann Telegram ›
On April 2, President Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany specifically citing Germany's renewed submarine policy as “a war against mankind. It is a war against all nations.” He also spoke about German spying inside the U.S. and the treachery of the Zimmermann Telegram.
Answer: Waterways
Explanation: For example in NY you have the Hudson River. People needed it for drinking water, transportation, and power.