Question

The question is in the picture.

Also here is what I had to read:
We would not have an America living within and for herself alone. However, we would have her self-reliant, independent, and ever nobler, stronger, and richer. Believing in our higher standards, reared through constitutional liberty and maintained opportunity, we invite the world to the same heights. But pride in things wrought is no reflex of a completed task. Common welfare is the goal of our national endeavor. Wealth is not inimical1 to welfare; it ought to be its friendliest agency. There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty. We ought to find a way to guard against the perils and penalties of unemployment. We want an America of homes, illumined with hope and happiness, where mothers, freed from the necessity for long hours of toil beyond their own doors, may preside as befits the hearthstone of American citizenship. We want the cradle of American childhood rocked under conditions so wholesome and so hopeful that no blight may touch it in its development. We want to provide that no selfish interest, no material necessity, no lack of opportunity shall prevent the gaining of that education so essential to best citizenship.

Answer 1

The correct answer is C. by stating that America should be free of unemployment and that all Americans should have a happy and peaceful life

Step-by-step explanation

Harding's text expresses the idea of ​​progress for the United States by calling on society to contribute to this purpose by saying "Common welfare is the goal of our national endeavor." He further specifies one of the important points to achieve progress by saying that "We ought to find a way to guard against the perils and penalties of unemployment" to avoid poverty. Finally, it highlights that all efforts are aimed at achieving common welfare characterized by "We want an America of homes, illumined with hope and happiness, where mothers, freed from the necessity for long hours of toil beyond their own doors, May presides as befits the hearthstone of American citizenship. " According to the above, it can be inferred that Harding's message uses as main arguments the theme of wealth, unemployment and happiness to support his position on the common welfare. So the correct answer is C.