The battle of yorktown is significant in the american revolution because a) it was there that the "shot heard ‘round the world" was fired. b) it marked the only time washington was ever defeated in battle. c) the british victory there succeeded in dividing george washington's colonial army into two parts. d) the british army surrendered after being surrounded there, marking the end of fighting in the war.

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explanation:

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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