Many african americans elected to office during reconstruction felt a special pressure to:

Prove they could succeed in politics

Prove they could succeed in politics.

Explanation:

The Reconstruction was the name given to the process by which society and government in the South was rebuilt after the civil war. African-Americans that were elected to office sometimes felt insecurity and pressure because they felt that all the eyes were on them and that they had to prove that they were good at politics.

answer

explanation

the given equation is

we can rewrite this as:

let

then the equation becomes:

the factors of 8 that sum up to -9 are {-1,-8}

we split the middle term with these factors to obtain,

we factor by grouping to obtain:

apply the zero product property to get:

but