subject
History, 11.01.2021 02:30 joe7977

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to “bind me in all cases whatsoever” to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?

Why does Thomas Paine liken the British to “a thief” that “breaks into my house” and “threatens to kill me” in this excerpt from The American Crisis? Select all that apply.
to justify the American use of force
to question the motives of the British
to deter the British from attacking America
to portray the American cause sympathetically

ansver
Answers: 2

Other questions on the subject: History

image
History, 21.06.2019 19:20, fubowangkevin
Morning how ur day and quick question who started the civil war?
Answers: 2
image
History, 21.06.2019 19:30, meiaalvizo2005
Even though both ww1 and ww2 were in many ways the same conflict with basically the same countries facing off against each other, the way each war started was significantly different. the question is how what were the differences on how they started
Answers: 1
image
History, 21.06.2019 23:00, michael11948
True or false: abraham lincoln delayed the emancipation proclamation to make sure the border states would stay loyal. *
Answers: 1
image
History, 22.06.2019 02:00, SMNS625
Iam told that hundreds if not thousands of these (armenians) were sent at once to the front ranks at the dardanelles, where death in a very short space of time is almost a certainty. the older men were then deported into the interior, while the women and children, when not carried off in an opposite direction, were left to shift for themselves as best they could. the terrible feature of this deportation up to date is that it has been carried out on such a basis as to render it practically impossible in thousands of cases that these families can ever again be reunited. not only wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, but even mothers and their little children have been dispersed in such a manner as to preclude practically all hope that they will ever see each other again. according to this excerpt, what does the author consider to be the worst part of the deportation during the armenian genocide?
Answers: 1
You know the right answer?
Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I bel...

Questions in other subjects: