What is there about American society that makes baseball America's "national pastime"?

Major League Baseball may indeed rank a poor third to football and basketball in television ratings, but the game remains the national pastime because it resonates more deeply in the country's soul than any other sport.

social status of early civilizations was based primarily on economic power.- true ( first choice)

the intolerable acts were punitive laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the boston tea party. in great britain, these laws were referred to as the coercive acts.