PLEASEEE HURYYY i have to turn it in 10 mins 3. Which statement is most consistent with the views of patriots in the 1770's?

a. The colonists should be grateful to be under British rule and
protection
b. Taxation without representation is tyranny and violates colonists'
rights
c. The British government provides colonists with stable and just
laws
d. As British subjects, colonists have a duty to the king and
Parliament

b. Taxation without representation is tyranny and violates colonists' rights.

Explanation:

isaac newton first proposed that earth was not perfectly round. instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

the idea of the earth being a flat disc is also inconsistent with the fact that a given lunar eclipse is only visible from half of the earth at a time. the only shape that casts a round shadow no matter which direction it is pointed is a sphere, and the ancient greeks deduced that this must mean the earth is spherical.

b) that he was not a free man