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I think all of the above because without all of them your essay wouldn't make sense
"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" shows that the mother didn't have an easy life and had to work hard at everything.
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Also, another cause of the lack of political focus during Reconstruction was the great economic prosperity in the North following the Civil War. ... The failure of the North to effectively rebuild the South and bring it back into the Union during Reconstruction is evident after the time period.