The "Red Shirts" are mostly associated with the period that followed after the Reconstruction era of the United States of America. Although they were present from the year 1875 but they became most active after the Reconstruction era. So it can be said that during the late 19th century the "Red Shirts" were most active.
Answer: b. an increase in machine-made goods beginning in England during the 1700s
Explanation: The Industrial Revolution marked an increase in machine-made goods beginning in England during the 1700s. The Industrial Revolution is the major technological, socioeconomic, and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century that resulted in the replacement of an economy based on manual labor to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture.
The correct answer is a metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech that uses something to refer to something else. Usually the two things are quite different things but their qualities are somewhat similar in a literal or figurative sense. In this instance "a radiant star" is just a giant conglomerate of burning gases in outer space and "love and brotherhood" are a human emotion and an ideal. However, our sun is a radiant star and it gives us warmth and life and love and brotherhood irradiate human beings with emotional warmth and life and that is why the metaphor is accurate.