What was the period of time when congress tried to punish the south for the civil war?
a : renaissance period
b : revolution period
c : reconstruction period
d : retribution period

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. and i live on, but in grief and self-contempt, left here without the light i loved so much, in a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. no more love songs, then, i have done with such; my old skill now runs thin at each attempt, and tears are heard within the harp i touch. (lines 9-14) which of the lines, taken from the sestet shown above, is the volta?

When this was published in early 1776, many american colonists became convinced that they should act to form a new kind of nation independent from the rule of britain's "cruel" courts

Otto von bismarck once said that a great war might someday be caused by some damed foolish thing in the balkans was he right, explain