Answer: B. Free Silver
Explanation:
Free Silver was an economic policy whereby the money supply of the United States would have been based on both silver and gold with silver having a fixed exchange ratio to gold.
This idea was very popular with rural farmers in the South-west of the United States as it would have given them more profit from farming and an easier way to pay off debt. The Democrats under William Jennings Bryan supported this but were defeated in every election where they stood for it.
Representative Democracy is the answer you are looking for
Antietam enabled the Union to repel the first Confederate invasion of the North, The battle allowed Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, Antietam kept Britain and France on the sidelines, The battle lifted sagging Union morale, Photographs from Antietam brought the horror of war to Americans for the first time, The battle may have saved Lincoln from a resounding defeat in midterm elections, Antietam marked the beginning of the end for General George McClellan.
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Author
Cultural Changes in the Atlantic World: Language is by John K. Thornton.
Context
Cultural Changes in the Atlantic World: Language is a book that was published in 2012.
Purpose
The purpose of this excerpt was to inform readers about African language.
Thesis
African language was replaced by creole and European languages.
Claim #1
Estates and towns with multiple nationality slaves encouraged the growth of a lingua franca.
Evidence Provided
“This clearly caused creole slaves, especially those of nationally mixed marriages, to opt for a lingua franca as their native speech.”
Claim #2
The creole was a popular spoken language on the West Africa coast.
Evidence Provided
“The French traveler Alexis de Saint-Lô found that Portuguese was spoken all over coastal Senegal when he visited in 1635, and some years earlier de Almada noted how widely it was spoken in the Gambia and Rivers of Guinea”
Claim #3
French missionaries wanted to spread the creole language
Evidence Provided
“The accommodation that these Jesuits made seems to be a creole form of the language, then deliberately propagated.”
Evaluation
The claims are strongly supported by the author's use of evidence. The claims support the thesis well.
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