Why were the colonists protesting British tax policies?

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The protests were based on legal principles, that only the colonial legislatures had the power to tax residents who had representatives in those legislatures.

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Stamp Act. Parliament's first direct tax on the American colonies, this act, like those passed in 1764, was enacted to raise money for Britain.

The Act resulted in violent protests in America and the colonists argued that there should be "No Taxation without Representation."

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Why the Belgian king colonized the Congo?

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One similarities between the mongol of central asia and the incas of south america was that both societiesa) developed crash crop farming
b) based their wealth on trade
c) adapted to difficulty physical environments
d)practiced monotheistic religions

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C) adapted to difficulty phuical environment

A company with a low level of productivity has a problem with:A. efficiently making the goods it sells.
B. designing its production possibilities curve.
C. selecting which economic trade-offs to make.
D. paying too much to secure investments.

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Answer: efficiently making the goods it sells

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"(We will provide) a safe, secure and high quality system of free public schools… (We will also provide for) the operation of (colleges) and other public education programs." This quote is most likely from

the Florida Constitution
the Declaration of Independence
the Bill of Rights
the U.S. Constitution

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The quite is most likely from The Florida Constitution

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What is the Final Solution??

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The final solution was Hitler's way of coming to power by creating a mass genocide of the Jewish population. He placed the blame of Germany's economic problems on the Jews because in his eyes they were well off while the germans were starving in the Depression.

The 'Final Solution' was the mass murder of the Jewish people. The Nazi leaders thought that the methods of killing were poor, so they all met up to discuss what they could do to murder the Jewish people in a more orderly way. The event killed 6 million Jewish people, who were murdered by gas chambers, starvation, shootings, and other acts of terror.

Alexander the Great died of ________ in 326
b. c.

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either poison, malaria or typhoid fever

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