Why did the British government pass the Navigation Acts? Were they effective?

Which source would best a historian understand the effect of the great chicago fire on families? a. a biography of a chicago family displaced by the fire b. a letter from a grandmother in new york to her family in chicago c. a newspaper editorial about families who were displaced d. an oral history dictated by an adolescent who fled the fire

Read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt’s “day of infamy” speech. which line reveals the purpose of the speech?

In the gettysburg address, which rhetorical device does abraham lincoln employ when he says, "the world will little note,nor remember what we say here, but ic never forget what they did here"?