Much of what I know of Adams's views on the French Revolution as it was happening is in reading parts of his letters to Thomas Jefferson as they appear in the book John Adams, by David McCollough. Adams was not against the revolution so much as he was against the extreme violence and methods that he pretty much equated as indiscriminate murder. He differed with Jefferson in this, as Jefferson held that the executions of the aristocracy and heads of institutions that supported them were necessary and signaled to the world there was no going back. Both Adams and Jefferson lost French friends to the revolution. Adams was of the opinion that the FR was resulting in replacing the tyranny of the few with the tyranny of the majority and that the excesses of the committee would lead to catastrophy in the end. Consequently, Adams developed a less than cordial esteem for the the leaders, while retaining hope for the French people in general. He had no love for the French agents the committee sent to America to drum up popular support for France and against Great Britain. These people caused serious problems for Adams as president and contributed greatly to the split in friendship with Jefferson that lasted for years.
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4) They needed money to pay for the french and Indian war.
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A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves.
Britain's second animated feature, which, despite the title and Disney-esque animal animation, is in fact a no-holds-barred adaptation of George Orwell's classic satire on Stalinism, with the animals taking over their farm by means of a revolutionary coup, but then discovering that although all animals are supposed to be equal, some are more equal than others...
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The available options are:
a) the continued efforts of the Anti-Saloon League
b) the fervor of the First World War Lending patriotism to the cause of prohibition
c) the Progressive belief in social reform
d) the cumulative impact of state prohibition laws
e) the high death toll from alcohol-related automobile accidents
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the high death toll from alcohol-related automobile accidents
Explanation:
Considering the available options, it is option E "the high death toll from alcohol-related automobile accidents" that has no direct influence on the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment legislating Prohibition in 1919.
All other options have contributed to the passage of the 18th amendment in the United States
