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AssignmentMultiple Choice

Analyzing Central Ideas in a Historical Speech

Question 1 • [ELA10] ELA 10, Sem 2 (26-27)

Which quotation is an example of how Tecumseh uses reasoning to develop the central idea that Harrison should stop taking land from Indigenous people?

Answer
A
“When Jesus Christ came upon the earth you killed Him and nailed Him to the cross. You thought He was dead, and you were mistaken.”
B
“And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.”
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“If you continue to purchase them, it will make war among the different tribes, and, at last I do not know what will be the consequences among the white people.”
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“You want by your distinctions of Indian tribes, in allotting to each a particular, to make them war with each other. You never see an Indian endeavor to make the white people do this.”
Which quotation is an example of how Tecumseh…