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Take a look at this question and see if you can figure out how the passage reflects the themes and concerns of the 19th century. 

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Sorry And here's your smoke too Sure brought to you

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by civil wars Don't be fooled They're just as rude

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as the uncivil one's Alright trail the following passage All

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right marilyn this very married A lot of slaves colonel

00:20

Yeah yeah very uptight Pay personality Make a lot of

00:25

money High profit when you don't pay your employees Shmoop

00:33

all right we're done We're done How does the passage

00:36

reflect the themes and concerns of the nineteenth century and

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hear the angelus is all right Friendly slavery Alright no

00:47

need to fret We don't have to be history buffs

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to get this question right We just have to read

00:52

the passage which is kind of par for the course

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and reading comprehension all right so just jump into option

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deeds It says that the passages about how industrialization is

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the key to america's success Well while big corporations and

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that evil supercomputer from terminator agree with this idea douglas

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doesn't talk about technology at all side note way hope

01:15

that when the cyborgs do attack they're all crafted to

01:17

look like frederick douglass All we know is we're going

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to be eradicated by an army of flesh covered robots

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will die a little happier if they look like freddy

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Okay so yeah choice d also thinks the passages about

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the effects of technology Well we just established that douglas

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isn't talking about the tech world So he's easy to

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cross off the list option He might be right of

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slaves were considered employees But call us crazy we think

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People have to be paid for their work in order

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to be considered employees We know we know hits a

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radical stance but somebody has to speak up Oh wait

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someone did speak up well a lot of someones and

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then there was a big nasty bloody war about it

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So this means that choice see is the right answer

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The passage does nothing but talk about slavery which did 00:02:01.4 --> [endTime] end up sparking the civil war theme

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