Story is Henry Adams Testimony Before Congress Which is on CommonLit

PART A: Which statement identifies the main idea of the text?

A
Even after receiving their freedom, black sharecroppers and their families continued to be treated as if they were slaves.
B
White landowners used fear and violence to force freedmen and their families to return to a life of slavery.
C
Freedmen in Shreveport encountered more prejudice and violence than other areas in the South after the abolition of slavery.
D
Henry Adams likely would have experienced better treatment as a sharecropper if he had worked for someone other than his former master.

swe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. "

- declaration of independence

  according to this passage from the declaration of independence, who gives government the power to exist?

a) the king

b) the people

c) their creator

d) their governmenthook

the correct answer is b.

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire