Answer:
The majority of them were wiped away by diseases that were transmitted by the Europeans.
Explanation:
Many years before the Europeans came to North America, the Native Indians lived peacefully among themselves but when the Europeans arrived on their shores and started business transactions with them in the 1400s, they brought along diseases that the Native Indians had no immunity to. These diseases included measles, smallpox, cholera, typhus, etc.
These diseases wiped off the Native Indians in their numbers but the Europeans had acquired resistance to these diseases making them have little symptoms or completely asymptomatic to these diseases.
Answer:
(i) First, it is important to remember the context. America was in the midst of a bloody civil war. Union troops had only recently defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Gettysburg. It was a the turning point in the war. The stated purpose of Lincoln’s speech was to dedicate a plot of land that would become Soldier’s National Cemetery. However, Lincoln realized that he also had to inspire the people to continue the fight.
Below is the text of the Gettysburg Address, interspersed with my thoughts on what made it so memorable.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
“Four score and seven” is much more poetic, much more elegant, much more noble than “Eighty-seven”. The United States had won its freedom from Britain 87 years earlier, embarking on the “Great Experiment”.
(ii) The Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment brought about by the Civil War were important milestones in the long process of ending legal slavery in the United States. This essay describes the development of those documents through various drafts by Lincoln and others and shows both the evolution of Abraham Lincoln’s thinking and his efforts to operate within the constitutional boundaries of the presidency.
The CORRECT answer is D hyperbole.
The president during 1812 was James Madison, his presidential term was 1809 to 1817.
