Read the following excerpt from the speech "cotton is king" by james henry hammond. which type of evidence does hammond present to support his claim that "cotton is king"?
cotton is king . . who can doubt, that has looked at recent events, that cotton is supreme? when the abuse of credit had destroyed credit and annihilated confidence; when thousands of the strongest commercial houses in the world were coming down, and hundreds of millions of dollars of supposed property evaporating in thin air; when you came to a dead lock, and revolutions were threatened, what brought you up? fortunately for you it was the commencement of the cotton season, and we have poured in upon you one million six hundred thousand bales of cotton just at the crisis to save you from destruction. that cotton, but for the bursting of your speculative bubbles in the north, which produced the whole of this convulsion, would have brought us $100,000,000. we have sold it for $65,000,000 and saved you. thirty-five million dollars we, the slaveholders of the south, have put into the charity box for your magnificent financiers, your "cotton lords," your "merchant princes."
a. expert opinions
b. allusions
c. facts
d. analogies

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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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