Each answer option includes a claim and supporting evidence.
Which answer option includes an assumption as well as supporting evidence?
A
Diseases happen in many places and spread quickly; The Black Death, originating in Central Asia, killed 40 percent or more of the European people — some 50 million souls — in the brief period of 1346 to 1353.
B
The heroism of Columbus is important to America; Columbus was much admired by our founders. The District of Columbia carries his name. The Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway (Interstate 10) symbolically links the U.S. from sea to sea — and to the Admiral of the Ocean Seas.
C
Native Americans endured centuries of discrimination; California’s political leaders in the 1850s made no secret of their desire to exterminate the area’s native inhabitants. State legislators funded anti-Indian militias.
D
The origins of Columbus Day are widely misunderstood; It wasn’t created to celebrate colonial domination at all but was designated as a federal holiday in the 1934 after a campaign by Italian-Americans and Catholics, who were then targets of ethnic and religious discrimination, to help establish their place in U.S. history.
D
The origins of Columbus Day are widely misunderstood; It wasn’t created to celebrate colonial domination at all but was designated as a federal holiday in the 1934 after a campaign by Italian-Americans and Catholics, who were then targets of ethnic and religious discrimination, to help establish their place in U.S. history.