Which of the following best surmanzes the central idea of this excerpt? Read the excerpt from "Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge" by Hon. Seth Low, Mayor of the City of Brooklyn In the course of the construction of the Bridge a number of lives have been lost Does it not sometimes seem as though every work of enduning value in the material as in the moral world, must needs be purchased at the cost of human life? Let us recall with kindness at this hour the work of those who labored bere faithfully unto the death, no less than of that great army of men who have wrought year in and year ou to execute the great design Let us give our meed of praise to-day to the humblesł worloman who has here done his duty well, no less than to the great engineer who told him what to do O The mayor gently lectures on the importance of speaking kindly about those who have died The mayor commemorates and gives paarse to those who were killed while building the bridge O Low gives a monotonous explanation of the costs of the materials that were purchased for the bridge O Low remembers those humble men who labored intensely and they to execute this dream

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

the united states presidential election of 1992 was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election. it was held on tuesday, november 3, 1992. democratic governor bill clinton of arkansas defeated incumbent republican president george h. w. bush, independent businessman ross perot of texas, and a number of minor candidates.

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