The Indians, especially the Five nations of the Iroquois, were exceptionally good at playing the French and the English against each other in order to maximize their own benefits. The French and Indian War was a guerrilla war of small skirmishes and surprise attacks.
This excerpt shows how Debs has endured and shared the harsh working conditions of laborers (D.).
Many verbal groups indicate his physical involvement in the working people's daily life and how it affected him emotionally:
- "I had ... been stung by the exposure ... of the rail;"
- "I was with the boys ... at the broken engine's side;"
- "helped to bear;"
- "feel the burden."
As for the harsh working conditions, they are described by the following nouns and adjectives:
- "hardship;"
- "weary;"
- "bruised and bleeding bodies;"
- "burden."
We know that they are laborers and not, for example, business owners, because their work is very manual. Besides, the term "working class" appears in the text, as well as "Proletaire" which is borrowed from French and means "belonging to the lower social classes."
The answer is B. Most Cherokee found the treaty fraudulent, and the Cherokee National Council voted to reject it in 1836. People against the treaty submitted a petition, lead by Chief John Ross, to urge Congress to void the treaty.
Another way your question could be framed is “why do nations use imperialism on weaker countries?” and the simple answer is there are several motives such as ethnocentric purposes, religion, access to natural resources, expanding power, etc. Specifically people resort to imperialism on weaker countries because they are vulnerable to accept whatever helps the people survive in times of unrest.
