5. Use the excerpt to answer the question.
"Be encouraged, all ye friends of freedom, and writers in its defence!... Behold
kingdoms, admonished [warned] by you, starting from sleep, breaking their fetters
[chains), and claiming justice from their oppressors! Behold, the light you have
struck out, after setting AMERICA free, reflected to FRANCE, and there kindled into
a blaze that... warms and illuminates EUROPE!"
Richard Price, British philosopher and preacher, 1789
Which best explains the speaker's beliefs concerning the American Revolution?