1. Chapter 36 starts out with Huck and Tom sliding down the lightning rod and going to try to
break Jim out. Where do they try to break him out?

can you take a picture of the passage so i can answer your question

harry says he would trade a gold mine for a glass of water.

i cant see the page but i am assuming as a innocent child who got tricked by an children eating old lady

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.