Well i would assume this is a simile since the use of “as” and it’s comparing one thing to another :)
Corporations provide the products and services that people need. <span>Apparently, they are helpful in aiding people with everyday transactions and commodities.</span><span> </span><span>Corporations also provide the opportunities for employment and benefits to help people provide for their families.</span>
The Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act also worked to obtain similar results. When the newly founded Republican Party (the first real anti-slavery party) won its first election in 1860 with Abraham Lincoln, the South feared that the government would infringe on its rights and interests, which led to secession, and then the Civil War.
Confederate troops fired at union troops in fort sumpter in charleston south carolina in april 1861
