Anticipating the Future through Texts: Visions — Unit test

Question 20 • Common Core ELA 11 - ELA3011 IC

Which excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines” best supports the theme "When people work together through difficult times, they can impact future generations”?

Answer

Although racial separation was embraced by many, there were some individuals and organizations that worked toward unity of the races.

When the miners still continued to strike, Alabama Governor Braxton Bragg Comer sent in state militia members to break up the tent city, resulting in the end of the work stoppage.

Members of the UMWA, however, resisted the tradition of racial separation, believing that such divisions defeated their common goals.

Although the strike was defeated, the unity of the UMWA workers laid the groundwork for successful interracial organizing in the decades to come.

Explanation

The theme says that people working together through hardship can affect future generations. Choice D directly connects the miners’ unity during a defeated strike with successful interracial organizing in later decades. The other choices describe racial separation, resistance, or the strike’s end, but do not show the workers’ cooperation influencing the future.

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