our freedom began at the end of the civil war. that was thirty years ago. we started with a few quilts, pumpkins and chickens. today we make new tools for farming. we make carriages. we make steam-engines work better. we print newspapers. we write books. we create art. we run drug stores. we have banks.
what kind of freedom is booker t. washington talking about in this paragraph?

The type of freedom that Booker T. Washington is talking about in this speech is the freedom to work.

Explanation:

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) became an important leader in the black community in the southern United States. He was born into slavery but became a successful businessman and entrepreneur and dedicated a lot of his time to becoming the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants.

Booker T. Washington is also controversial because he called for black progress through running their own businesses and education without direct confrontation or resistance to the Jim Crow laws that were being instituted in post-Reconstruction states in the South. The famous speech where he voiced this was given in 1895 and called "the Atlanta Compromise."

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)

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