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Analyzing Seminal Documents: Mastery Test
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Select the correct answer.
excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's Second Inaugural Address
On taking this station on a former occasion, I declared the
principles on which I believed it my duty to administer the
affairs of our commonwealth. My conscience tells me that I
have, on every occasion, acted up to that declaration, according
to its obvious import, and to the understanding of every candid
mind.
Jefferson delivered his second inaugural address to an audience at a time when the political circumstances were changing
significantly. How does the underlined phrase in the excerpt address the concerns of that audience?
O A.
It empathizes with the audience's concerns by highlighting Jefferson's stance on the new amendments
made prior to his election.
OB.
In the transaction of your foreign affairs, we have endeavored
to cultivate the friendship of all nations, and especially of those
with which we have the most important relations. We have
done them justice on all occasions, favored where favor was
lawful, and cherished mutual interests and intercourse on fair
and equal terms. We are firmly convinced, and we act on that
conviction, that with nations, as with individuals, our interests
soundly calculated, will ever be found inseparable from our
moral duties...
It reassures the audience by highlighting Jefferson's determination to seek the friendship of all other
nations.
Ос.
It reassures the audience by highlighting Jefferson's determination to create foreign alliances that are both
beneficial and just.
OD
It empathizes with the audience's concerns by highlighting Jefferson's spect for the rights of citizens.
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