Dekanawidah uses the phrase "Tree of the Great Long Leaves" in the Iroquois Constitution to suggest that members of the Iroquois Confederacy will be
In paragraph six of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," what does Edwards suggest about spiritual reform?
Read the passage about the Iroquois.Around 1570, the Iroquois made an oral contract—an agreement made through spoken words. Originally, it was memorized and represented in beaded wampum belts. Later, it was written down. We now call this agreement the Iroquois Constitution. This document provides an example of an early political document that played a role in US history and describes Iroquois values. The Iroquois Constitution declared that the Five Nations would join into one peaceful Iroquois Confederacy. It also created rules for a common council to unite the Nations. The Confederacy lasted for 200 years, until the American Revolution. During the time it existed, it provided the Iroquois with a united front for dealing with European colonists in the 17th and 18th centuries. Historians debate the impact of the Iroquois Constitution on the US Constitution. However, they agree that the Iroquois Constitution was the first to lay out division of power within a government.Which sentence from the passage best describes the influence of the Iroquois Constitution on the development of the United States?
The theme best expressed in "To My Dear Loving Husband" and "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty" is
Read the excerpt from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."You will know certainly that you must wear out long ages, millions of millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with this almighty merciless vengeance; and then when you have so done, when so many ages have actually been spent by you in this manner, you will know that all is but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will indeed be infinite. Oh who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is!Edwards uses the phrase “Oh who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is!” in order to
Based on Of Plymouth Plantation, which aspect of the Pilgrims’ culture and society was most important to them?
Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number IV.“You ought not to think an hour upon the matter, but to spring to action at once.”What is the purpose of the words “hour” and “spring”?
Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number IV.Shall a band of ten or twelve thousand robbers, who are this day fifteen hundred or two thousand men less in strength than they were yesterday, conquer America, or subdue even a single state? The thing cannot be, unless we sit down and suffer them to do it.In this excerpt, Paine uses a rhetorical device to encourage readers to
Paine most likely wrote The Crisis, Number IV in order to
Read this quotation from The Crisis, Number IV by Thomas Paine.Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.According to this quotation, Paine believes that the colonists
Read this excerpt from The Crisis, Number IV.It is distressing to see an enemy advancing into a country, but it is the only place in which we can beat them, and in which we have always beaten them, whenever they made the attempt. The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together, and it is only the last push, in which one or the other takes the lead.How does the use of figurative language in this excerpt support Paine's message?
Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number IV.“Howe is now weaker than before, and every shot will contribute to reduce him. You are more immediately interested than any other part of the continent: your all is at stake; it is not so with the general cause; you are devoted by the enemy to plunder and destruction: it is the encouragement which Howe, the chief of plunderers, has promised his army.”Why is the repetition of “you” in this sentence an effective rhetorical technique?
Which is the best summary of the final paragraph of The Crisis, Number IV?
Which is the best summary of The Crisis, Number IV?
Read the statement.Achieving independence requires sacrifice and determination.This statement is the The Crisis, Number IV’s
Read the quotation from The Crisis, Number IV.“It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.”Which phrase best describes the “cause” that Paine refers to?
In 1782, Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet called "On the King of England's Speech." This pamphlet most likely included
Based on "The Origin of the Robin," which statement best illustrates the Ojibwa view on an individual's growth and change?
Read this excerpt from "The Origin of the Robin."His father visited him regularly every morning, to encourage him to perseverance, describing at length the honor and renown that would attend him through life if he accomplished the full term prescribed.According to this excerpt, which best describes the father’s hope for his son?
Why is "The Origin of the Robin" considered a creation myth?
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