Please help i need answer quick! First person will be marked brainliest!

Brainliestttme : ) why was the launch of sputnik in 1957 important? -most in the u.s. had not thought the soviets were capable of producing satellite technology. - it made clear that the u.s. space program was dominant. - most in the soviet union had not thought the u.s. was capable of launching manned aircraft. - it established the fact that a more dangerous hydrogen bomb could be created.

What was the job of the second continental congress

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is