During the Cold war, there was a big fear of a possible nuclear attack from the Soviet Union, so when the US wanted to increase its spending on defense, it argued for it by saying that it needed to have better weapons to be able to prevent a possible attack.
I believe it is the Albany Plan of Union
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The response to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 was the following: "the federal government began spending billions of dollars to improve American science and language education."
The space program had to be sped up because, in those years of the Cold War, it was inadmissible for the United States to behind the Soviet Union in the space race. The United States federal government also invested a lot in education and space research.
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into space. People in American could not believe what their eyes were watching and their ears were listening. United States citizens expressed concerns about the lag of their country in the Space Race.
On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union did it again. They launched Vistock 1, with Yuri Gagarin into space.
The constitution defines citizenship in the 14th amendment.<span />
The best answer is Mrs. Crater claims that she would not give her daughter away for anything, when in fact she gives her away for nothing at all.
Explanation
If you talk about the irony of a situation, you mean that it is odd or amusing because it involves a contrast. So when Mr. Crater says <em>"I wouldn’t give her up for nothing on earth"</em>, she doesn't mean it because she even pays Mr. Shiftlet to marry her daughter.
The other answers does not demonstrate the true irony of the excerpt:
- Mrs. Crater asserts that Lucynell can sweep, cook, feed the chickens, and h o. but the girl also is very smart: This can be considered ironic but it is not the irony of the whole excerpt.
- Mrs. Crater is describing all of her daughter’s strengths to Mr. Shiftlet in the hopes that he will marry Lucynell: This is not an irony.
- Crater says she values her daughter more than anything in the world, but then she gives her away for a car: This is not true.
