Part 2: Reviewing Social Studies Skills: Analyzing a Quotation
Read the quote below. Then examine the statements below which interpret the meaning of
the quote. Circle the letter next to the statement that best explains the quote:
"This new World hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty
from every part of Europe. Hither they have fled, not from the tender embraces of the
mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; it is so far true of England that the same tyranny
which drove the first emigrants from home, pursue their descendents still."
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b.
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- Thomas Paine in Common Sense-
All European nations deny their citizens rights to civil and religious freedom.
American colonists fled Europe to get away from their mothers.
American colonists suffered because their basic civil and religious freedoms were denied by
the English government.
Britain always protected the rights of American colonists.