Question

1. choose the best answer.

hamilton used the national debt as an example to prove that the articles were ______.
ineffective
powerful
illegal
sufficient

1. choose the best answer.

the thesis statement should ______ all the ideas of the essay.
paraphrase
cite
analyze
summarize

1. choose the best answer.

paying ______ to the federal government is required because taxpayers receive its services.
land
homage
foreign money

Explanation:

Analyze Hamilton's argument on national debt

In Federalist No. 15, Alexander Hamilton argued that the Articles of Confederation left the national government powerless to raise revenue or pay off its debts, demonstrating that the Articles were ineffective. This aligns with the Federalists and Anti-Federalists debates regarding the weakness of the first American constitution.

Determine the function of a thesis statement

A thesis statement serves to condense and present the main argument of an essay. Therefore, it should summarize all the core ideas of the essay in a concise manner.

Identify required payments to the federal government

Citizens receive public services from the federal government, and in return, they are legally required to pay taxes (or in this context, the missing option that represents compulsory financial contributions, which is typically taxes; let's look at the visible options: "land", "homage", "foreign money". Since the bottom of the image is slightly cut off, the standard correct answer to this common civic question is "taxes", which would be the fourth option). Let's provide the correct completion based on standard curriculum questions.

Answer:

Question 4

• ineffective (Correct answer)
• powerful
• illegal
• sufficient

Question 5

• paraphrase
• cite
• analyze
• summarize (Correct answer)

Question 6

• land
• homage
• foreign money
• taxes (Correct answer)