Read the following excerpt from the speech "cotton is king" by james henry hammond. which type of evidence does hammond present to support his claim that "cotton is king"?
cotton is king . . who can doubt, that has looked at recent events, that cotton is supreme? when the abuse of credit had destroyed credit and annihilated confidence; when thousands of the strongest commercial houses in the world were coming down, and hundreds of millions of dollars of supposed property evaporating in thin air; when you came to a dead lock, and revolutions were threatened, what brought you up? fortunately for you it was the commencement of the cotton season, and we have poured in upon you one million six hundred thousand bales of cotton just at the crisis to save you from destruction. that cotton, but for the bursting of your speculative bubbles in the north, which produced the whole of this convulsion, would have brought us $100,000,000. we have sold it for $65,000,000 and saved you. thirty-five million dollars we, the slaveholders of the south, have put into the charity box for your magnificent financiers, your "cotton lords," your "merchant princes."
a. expert opinions
b. allusions
c. facts
d. analogies

number 11 i would say 3rd or 4th

number 12 the 1st one

taking into account that a theme is the central topic a text treats and can be developed through a story, play, poem etc. the following are themes that can be further developed:  

my best friend jeffrey has many unusual interests. (the story could be about each of the unususal interests)

once a man gives his soul over to evil, he can never go back. (this could be a saying or a proverb)

the three sheepdogs lay around the yard all day. (it could be developed detailing how each of these sheepdogs lay around)

a priest's collar has an unusual effect upon people. (it could be developed detailing the different effect upon people)

innocence is a powerful force in a world full of corruption. (it could be developed detailing how is a world full of corruption)

king lear is a play shakespeare wrote later. (it is just a sentence and doesnt give any idea or topic to be discussed in details.

evil often wears the disguise of innocence. (this could be a saying or a proverb)

first question's answer is   a. they felt bad for the kitten, and started feeling guilty for not it.

second question's answer is c. she was trying to prevent the kitten from further screaming.

third question's answer is a. the mother and aunt fran faced their fears of cats, from it.

hopefully this