The Navigation Acts (1651, 1660) were acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods.
1) What does Bryan say about the status of working people?
Bryan defends the rights of working people, their force and importance at the moment of building progress. Bryan compares workers and businessman and mentions that both are necessary for cities improvement.
Also, he mention that the status of workers is underestimated. Nobody can displace the art of sowing fertile prairies that supply the greatest cities, he tolds. From this work, we take the resources that make the difference.
2) What does Bryan say about the importance of farming?
Bryan defends agriculture over other related business activities. Also, he claims against the political decisions related to gold standards. Workers of the nations will join forces in order to defend the importance of their work.
The gold standard consists of an economic system, valid during the Depression of the 1930s in America. It sets the value of an activity in terms of gold.
3)Explain the point Bryan is making by using the thorns and cross metaphors to describe the gold standard
Bryan is trying to convince an auditory that he is right: workers deserve to be valued. In order to persuade the listeners, he uses the ancient strategies from rethoric, that consist on different figures of speech. For example, the thorns and cross metaphors.
Also, the thorns and crown metaphor connect with very symbolic religious symbols. People value this allegory because they can identify with it.
American discovered that they could grow their own food because of the native americans who taught them how when they arrived here .
<u>Answer:</u>
The public planning of many lynchings in the South showed that police were not interested in stopping violence.
Option: (B)
<u>Explanation:</u>
- The lynchings that happened in the south have always been believed to have happened due to the deliberate ignorance of the Police and the other responsible authorities.
- The prejudice beard by the majority white population of the south against the blacks of the south kept on out-springing in violent unrest in between the groups of these two.
- The sparks of violence were aired to become rages of fire due to the ignorance of the Police as the police too were predominantly against the blacks.
Travis, commander of the Texian forces at the Battle of the Alamo, to settlers in Mexican Texas. The letter is renowned as a "declaration of defiance" and a "masterpiece of American patriotism", and forms part of the history education of Texas schoolchildren.
