In Summary View of the Rights of British America of 1774, Jefferson made an interesting argument. He asserted, “America was ________, and her settlement made, and firmly established, at the expense of individuals, and not of the British public.”

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In Summary View of the Rights of British America of 1774, Jefferson made an interesting argument. He asserted, “America was ________, and her settlement made, and firmly established, at the expense of individuals, and not of the British public.”

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The prompt presents a quote-associated question about Jefferson’s argument in the Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774).
Option 1: 'Surrendered by our European Enemies' This choice reads as if America’s status derives from being surrendered by opponents, which contradicts Jefferson’s framing that the land and its settlement were achieved through American agency rather than European concession. It misattributes sovereignty to enemies rather than to the American undertaking.
Option 2: 'Destined by the Divine' While the era often invoked providential language, Jefferson’s specific claim centers on economic and political establishment by American effort, not a theological prediction of destiny. This answer reads as if divine predestination alone determined settlement, which overshoots the argument’s practical emphasis on establishment at individuals’ expense, not divine mandate.
Option 3: 'Conquered' This is the correct choice. The passage notes that America was conquered and settled at the expense of individuals rather than the British public, highlighting an idea of removal of foreign or imperial control through colonists’ own efforts and costs.
Option 4: 'Destined by the Divine' Duplicate of option 2 with the same conceptual flaw, asserting an unqualified divine destiny rather than the concrete assertion of settlement driven by individual effort and expense. This redundancy reinforces the misinterpretation of Jefferson’s argument as purely providential rather than practical and political.
In sum, the analysis points out that options 1, 2, and 4 misstate the basis of Jefferson’s claim about who bore the costs and who effected the settlement, whereas option 3 accurately captures the notion of conquest/settlement at private expense rather than by public British action.

In Summary View of the Rights of British America of 1774, Jefferson made an interesting argument. He asserted, “America was ________, and her settlement made, and firmly established, at the expense of individuals, and not of the British public.”

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