What was the significance of the Pentagon Papers? Americans’ support for the Vietnam War increased.

The leaked documents hastened the end of the Vietnam War.

Public access to government documents was made more readily available.

New legislation was enacted to outlaw leaking information.

The correct answer is B) The leaked documents hastened the end of the Vietnam War.

The significance of the Pentagon Papers was "The leaked documents hastened the end of the Vietnam War."

These papers indicated that the United States had been secretly involved in Vietnam before its official involvement.

The United States Department of Defense had a secret report about military involvement in the War of Vietnam. They called the Pentagon Papers. Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst in the case, considered in 1968 that the information should be released to the public. In March 1971, he gave a copy of the papers to the New York Times. The papers showed how previous administrations had misled public information about the involvement of the US in Vietnam.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion