The answer is a.. A colon is best used in advance of a new topic or point, and not in the midst of a sentence, as is the case with the other options.
Annie's past tells us that she was a little bit like Helen.
The way Annie deals with Helen shows us that Annie had a lot of patience.
This is not a question - though it is a true statement.
Answer:
The Jim Crow Laws were a series of local laws and regulations established in the southern states of the United States after the end of Reconstruction, with the objective of reinstating racial segregation against the black population, establishing certain requirements for the exercise of rights civilians and politicians who had been recognized for these in the Constitution after the end of the Civil War.
Thus, these laws established a sort of hierarchy between the different citizens of the southern states, where, ultimately, white men with high purchasing power were those who had the greatest prerogatives. Thus, an artificial hierarchy was generated that violated the right to equality of people, and affected all those people who did not meet the requirements that the laws established to exercise political rights (especially black and lower-class people).
They were too small and weak. They could not lift heavy objects or work for long hours.