PLEASE HURRY IM TIMED Which sentence is most negative?

The methods of communication of the 1800s were much worse than they are today.
People today have a much easier time communicating with each other than they did in the 1800s.
Today, people communicate with faraway friends and family through the convenience of their phones or computers.
While people today rely on phones and e-mail, in the 1800s, many people sent carefully handwritten letters to their distant loved ones.

In what way do you think it would be difficult to live next to the united states

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

Someone get back to me , i really don’t get this