Thomas Paine make this statement to convince people to support the independence movement
Answer: Option D
<u>Explanation:</u>
This statement was made by Thomas Paine in common sense. He made this statement in very blunt yet plain words where he said that the people should fight for their independence from the rule of the British people.
There should be no support to the British rule in any ways and all the colonists should support this movement of breaking the rule of the British. He said the people who would disagree with him would be stupid.
To restrict the ability of African Americans to exercise voting rights.
The black community had less access to education than whites even after slavery was ended; thus their literacy rates were lower. They also experienced much poverty because of prejudice against them in the economic system of the country, so poll taxes could keep them from going to the polls to vote. The "grandfather clauses" were exemptions granted by some states to those whose forefathers ("grandfathers") had full voting rights prior to the Civil War, so if there were poor or illiterate whites, they could vote freely while blacks (whose ancestors had been slaves) were subjected to the laws restricting their voting ability.
These sorts of restrictions against black voters prompted much of the activism of the civil rights movement that began in the middle of the 20th century.
Hamilton was seen as a person who favored more power obtained by the central government. This means he was in favor of things like a national bank, less state rights, and less of an ability for freed slaves to vote (because federalists were also democrats). Jefferson, on the contrary, was an anti-federalist. He feared that excess central power would infringe on the rights of the states, and so to avoid this, he did as much as he could to retain state rights. He also believed central government authority gave more power to the upper class (wealthy whites) than it did to the common man (poor whites, freed slaves).
