<span>Less than 10 percent of people held most of American's wealth in the late 1800s</span>
These phrases are contradictions because they speak of contradictory things being compared as if they were synonymous, as if one were necessary for the other to occur, but in fact there is no such a thing.
They believed that they could endlessly engage in a war to keep peace in the country
<span>I received the tidings of [my mother’s] death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.</span>