Question

Need some help on this question:
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Answer 1

This is more or less reading comprehension. Have you read the paragraph?

Answer 2

I'll be happy to help you along but I can't give answers.

Answer 3

Well have you tried crossing off some options?

Answer 4

Do you know what abolition means?

Answer 5

Here, I will eliminate one option then you have to work your way through (with our help of course). "On the contrary, our national birth was the beginning of a new history, the formation and progress of an untried political system".

Notice the key phrase "untried political system"
Therefore, option D) cannot be correct because it implies that the politcal system has been practiced before and guaranteed to succeed. Can you think of any other options that can be crossed off from the list?

Answer 6

So of these options,
Will not be truly free without abolition
must have a social revolution to become great
is meant to expand across the continent and become extraordinary
is a nation built on historically successful political practices, guaranteed to succeed.

Which one do you think the author, John L. O'Sullivan would most agree?

The paragraph doesn't talk about modeling your political system after another. It doesn't talk about a social revolution. It doesn't talk about expanding across a continent as the only way to success and it actually talks against molding after another nations history.

So this leaves one answer.

Answer 7

Did that help @WhatTehHeck ?