Select the correct answer. Read this excerpt from Thomas Paine's famous essay "The Crisis Number One":
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a S,
people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the
calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Nelther have I so much of the Infidel in me, as to suppose that He
has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils; and as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the king
of Britain can look up to heaven for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a house-breaker, has as good a pretence as he.
Which sentence best describes Paine's claim in the excerpt?
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OA. God would not take sides between the British and the American colonists.
B. It was necessary to save Americans because God did not support military destruction.
O c. It was necessary for America to fight the British to defend their religious values.
O D. God would defend the American colonists' fight because their cause was upright.
O E. It was necessary for Americans to save themselves and not walt for God to help them.

O D. God would defend the American colonists' fight because their cause was upright.

Explanation:

Thomas Paine's "The Crisis Number One" is a political statement about his support for the American people's desire and the act of revolting against the British empire. In it, he argues for the need to get independence and that it is the right thing to do for the American people.

Moreover, Paine continues to present an accusatory claim towards Britain and its king, "I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain can look up to heaven for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a house-breaker, has as good a pretence as he." To Paine, it seemed like God will not even want to side with the British because of their desire to be violent while the US "have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent."

Thus, the correct answer is option D.

(d) rivers.

explanation:

civilizations developed around rivers because their waters provided places to hunt and fish. also, as the rivers flooded, the lands around them became fertile. this allowed them to support farming. this is especially true of the nile river, which flooded the same time each year.

the assassination of president lincoln was just one part of a larger plot to decapitate the federal government of the u.s. after the civil war. the first reaction to lincoln’s death was disbelief. then it quickly changed to grief. abraham lincoln’s death created an outpouring of grief from citizens in both the north and the south.

explanation:

lincoln was the first u.s. president to be assassinated. president abraham lincoln, america’s civil war leader, was assassinated just five days after confederate general robert e. lee surrendered his army at appomattox court house, ending the four-year war between the states. on the evening of april 14, 1865, lincoln was attending a performance of our american cousin at ford’s theatre in washington, d.c. john wilkes booth – a 26-year old actor, confederate sympathizer, and white supremacist – slipped into the presidential box and shot lincoln in the head. john wilkes booth and his conspirators had initially planned to kidnap lincoln to save the confederate states. but as the confederacy faltered, booth’s thoughts turned to murder. booth may have decided to act on his hatred after lincoln endorsed giving the right to vote to african-american men who had served in the union army.