Questions Refer to the Passage Below

question 31

Multiple Choice

Questions refer to the passage below.
Section II-Regarding Merchants. It is plain that the infidel and treacherous British government have monopolized the trade of all the fine and valuable merchandise, such as indigo, cloth, and other articles of shipping, leaving only the trade of trifles to the people. . . . When the Badshahi Government is established, all these aforesaid fraudulent practices shall be dispensed with, and the trade of every article, without exception, both by land and by water, shall be open to the merchants of India.
The Azamgarh Proclamation (1857) , Bahadur Shah, last Mughal emperor
-The proclamation is issued in which of the following historical contexts?

• A) Movements to revitalize Islam on the periphery of empires
• B) The Mfecane movement in northern Africa
• C) The caste wars in South America
• D) Anti-imperial resistance to the expansion of colonizing states

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A form of deductive reasoning consisting of three statements: a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion, each sharing a common term.

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Middle Term

In the context of a syllogism in logic, the middle term is the term that appears in both premises but not in the conclusion, serving as a link between the two terms that do appear in the conclusion.