Nelson Mandela. He then spent 27 years in prison and came out a hero of human rights
To the surprise of many, the House elected John Quincy Adams over rival Andrew Jackson. It was widely believed that Clay, the Speaker of the House at the time, convinced Congress to elect Adams, who then made Clay his Secretary of State. Jackson’s supporters denounced this as a "corrupt bargain."
Here's the answers in order:
- people's rights
- natural law
- social contract
So the full paragraph would read: Many philosophers wrote down their philosophies about the government and people's rights. A number of philosophers published books on the subject. They applied the idea of natural law to social and political analysis. Thomas Hobbes wrote <em>Leviathan</em>, a book about social structure and government. He wrote about the social contract, an agreement in which the people exchanged some of their individual freedoms for the government’s protection.
Percy's mother wanted to be an author or book writer but couldn't because she didn't get a college degree
A genre of narrative; more specifically, a type of autobiography written by a former African American slave that typically recounts that person's life as a slave and how he or she managed to escape to freedom. In addition to having the basic purpose of all autobiographies, slave narratives also had the important social purpose of convincing the reader that slavery needed to be abolished
