In the reading, Yao Chen-Yuan describes traveling to deliver a message. Why was he willing to risk danger to travel to Tientsin? He wanted to help the Boxers with their cause. He wanted to send a message to the emperor. He wanted to help the people suffering in China. He wanted to attack the American consulate.

Lucifer with lucifer, although an angel he and not a man, i purpose to begin. for notwithstanding angels cannot be the sport of fortune, yet he fell though sin down into hell, and he is yet therein, o lucifer, brightest of angels all. now thou art satan, and canst never win out of my miseries; how great they fall! adam consider adam, made by god's own fingerm and not begotten of man's unclean seed, he that in eden was allowed to linger - now call damascus- and had power at need over all paradise, save that decreed and single tree prohibited. than he none ever on earth stood higher, till his deed drove him to labour, hell and misery describe a theme that the author develops through these two excerpts. then analyze how the two excerpts interact and build on one another to develop this theme. be sure to use specific details from the text to support your ideas

1) the french and indian war was a smaller war that was a part of what larger european war? 2) what was the first direct tax placed on the colonies by the british government? 3) how did the stamp act affect the prices of goods? 4) what happened to the stamp act as a result of colonist protest, boycotts, and the stamp act congress?

What states were considered a part of the antebellum south?