The correct answer is A)To convince the American colonies to separate from Britain
Thomas Paine's famous pamhplet <em>Common Sense</em> was written as a means to convince colonists that they would be better of without British control. In the passage above, Paine argues that the colonists would have had more financial success without being controlled by England. This is due to the fact that the colonists were often limited to trading just with England as part of its system of mercantilism. This severely limited the colonists and their ability to trade with other countries.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Unfortunately, you did not mention the name of the text. Without the name of the text, we do not know what is included there.
However, trying to help you, we can comment on the following.
There is a text titled "The Voting Rights Act of 1965." If that is the case, we can say the following.
The author of this text refers to that legislation passed in the mid-sixties and says that there are laws that were passed to limit American minorities to exert their vote in elections. Of course, the author not only refers to African Americans, but to Hispanic people or Asian people.
In the case of African Americans, the author includes a series of legislation that had been passed in different states to limit their civil rights despite federal legislation.
Most of it came from state run farms. The communists collectivized farming meaning that there were no private farms anymore but there were only farms run by the state with agriculture workers working for the country and not just for themselves. Their produce would belong to the state and would be sold to people instead of farmers choosing what to do with it.<span />