Correct: The answer is c. The featured families whose possessions are being auctioned appear helpless and distraught. Rather than portraying poor families who fell into poverty as agents in their own demise, they are portrayed as victims of the economy.

Incorrect: The answer is c. The featured families whose possessions are being auctioned appear helpless and terribly sad. Rather than portraying poor families who fell into poverty as agents in their own demise, they are portrayed as victims of the economy.

Correct: The answer is a. Flint details the languishing of agriculture, the high unemployment, the practice of deception by employers, and the loss of property.

Incorrect: The answer is a. Flint details the languishing of agriculture, the high unemployment, the practice of deception by employers, and the loss of property.

Correct: The answer is b. The Virginia Agricultural Society argued that enlarged or increased competition prevented “extravagant prices and exorbitant profits” for the merchants, keeping price levels from skyrocketing.

Incorrect: The answer is b. The Virginia Agricultural Society argued that enlarged or increased competition prevented “extravagant prices and exorbitant profits” for the merchants, keeping price levels from skyrocketing.

Correct: The answer is d. In his argument, Kent asserted that the “tendency of universal suffrage is to jeopardize the rights of property.”

Incorrect: The answer is d. In his argument, Kent asserted that the “tendency of universal suffrage is to jeopardize the rights of property.”

Correct: The answer is d. Sanford argued that the “course of things in this country is for the extension . . . of popular rights.” He believed that progress in America included an expansion of rights.

Incorrect: The answer is d. Sanford argued that the “course of things in this country is for the extension . . . of popular rights.” He believed that progress in America included an expansion of rights.