Read the excerpt from "what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”

is it not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver and gold; that, while we are reading, writing and ciphering, acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in california, capturing the whale in the pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hill-side, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the christian’s god, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!

based on the excerpt above, what was most likely true about this time in the nation’s history?
-whaling was the most profitable industry for african americans.
-ships were the primary means of transporting goods for african americans.
-african americans were performing the same duties as others without the same rights.
-more industries were created by african americans during this period than any other time in our nation’s history.

The right answer is "African Americans were performing the same duties as others without the same rights."

The text shows that African-Americans had the same jobs and the same jobs as white people. They had a common life like anyone else in society, they thought, talked, planned, acted, formed families, and did many things in the same way as white people, but in spite of all that, they did not have the same civil rights and privileges as them. African Americans had to prove at all times that they were honest and equal men and women.

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war

answer: b

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