PLEASE HELP Which of the following sentences from the text best supports Turner's
purpose in describing the significance of the frontier in American history?
A. Most celebrated of these conferences was the Albany congress of
1754, called to treat with the Six Nations, and to consider plans of
union.
B. The tax-gatherer is viewed as a representative of oppression.
C. The recent Populist agitation is a case in point.
D. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession,
and the advance of American settlement westward, explain
American development.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .