Rosie's family had come through New York's Ellis Island in 1907 with such high hopes. They knew, of course, that the streets weren't really paved with gold, but they looked forward to new opportunities. Opportunities did come, but along with them came hardships. Though the city was exciting, it was also overwhelming. Work was hard to find, and it sometimes seemed as if no one had time to help or even notice the new arrivals. Still, Rosie got used to her new life, and even though she missed her old friends, she made new ones who helped her through many hard times. Which statement best explains how the setting affects the plot of this story? A. The setting is the social environment of an immigrant family, which causes Rosie to have to make new friends even though she misses her old friends. B. The setting is the social environment of an immigrant family, which enables the author to explore the histories of real families like Rosie's. O. C. The setting is New York, which allows Rosie's family to fit in easily within their diverse neighborhood. D. The setting is New York, which causes Rosie's family to have to live in a small apartment building.

Read the passage from the opinion of the court in dred scott v. sandford, written by justice taney. the question then arises, whether the provisions of the constitution, in relation to the personal rights and privileges to which the citizen of a state should be entitled, embraced the negro african race, at that time in this country, or who might afterwards be imported, who had then or should afterwards be made free in any state; and to put it in the power of a single state to make him a citizen of the united states, and endue him with the full rights of citizenship in every other state without their consent? does the constitution of the united states act upon him whenever he shall be made free under the laws of a state, and raised there to the rank of a citizen, and immediately clothe him with all the privileges of a citizen in every other state, and in its own courts? the court thinks the affirmative of these propositions cannot be maintained. and if it cannot, the plaintiff in error could not be a citizen of the state of missouri, within the meaning of the constitution of the united states, and, consequently, was not entitled to sue in its courts. what claim does justice taney make in this passage? that sanford has the right to enslave scott that scott has the right to be emancipated that scott is not a citizen of missouri that sanford cannot sue because he is not a citizen