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Ben Ayers

8 November, 12:22

Refer to the two paragraphs that begin on page

4 and end on page 6. What is Henry's purpose in

posing multiple questions?

ginian lawyer

issionately for the

nies. In March 1775, he

rond Virginia

couraging the

yainst the British Henry

was imminent and

y in the Revolutionary

to coax listeners to agree with his arguments

regarding the imminent war

y or Death"

nry

to cast doubt upon his own rhetoric regarding the

struggle for liberty

to reveal the hopeless situation in which colonists

find themselves

nan I do of the

of the very

just addressed

often see the

ts; and

thought

to encourage the other members of the convention

to engage in a frank dialogue

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