2. Why were tanks developed for use on the battlefield? The technology for tanks was developed so that larger guns could be fired at enemy soldiers without the need for reinforcements.
Tanks were developed to carry large number of soldiers quickly to battlefields that were constantly changing locations.
Tanks were needed along the frontline trenches of World War I because it had become Impossible for either side to advance.
French engineers developed the tank as a way to protect soldiers of World War II from direct enemy attack.

1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.

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