Question

Alonzo Herndon was born a slave in Georgia in 1858. After the war, he helped his family by selling molasses and peanuts to people in his home town. As an adult, he founded a barbershop in Jonesboro, Georgia, but eventually moved to Atlanta. Soon, he owned three barber shops there and used his profits to invest in real estate. In the early-1900s he founded the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company, which offered insurance to African Americans. Based on this information, what can you reasonably conclude about Alonzo Herndon? A) He was a lifelong entrepreneur. B) He served for the Confederate Army. C) He spent most of his life as a slave. D) He found success outside of the South.

Answer 1

Lifelong entrepreneur.

Answer 2

Based on this information, we can conclude that Alonzo Herndon was a lifelong entrepreneur. You can rasonably arrive to this conclusion because the information is telling you all the things Alonzo did to be as successful as he is now. He started in a really simple way, selling little things in his home town and then step by step he was growing in business, everytime with new things he was thinking of doing.