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Texas EOC English 2: 1.1 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts 217 Views


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Thank you We sneak in and here's her shmoop toos

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your brought to you by american history Where was the

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declaration of independence Signed by the x is requesting All

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right Check the following passage from democracy in america Tokyo

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huh Nothing to do with california marijuana laws All right

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I'm an enemy control anglo american unite on the mother

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country Hey sovereignty All right which of the following is

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the controlling idea of the passage And here the potential

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in ninety All right Well it's time to get our

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history on the main idea here isn't contained in one

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easy statement Thanks a lot Alexis de tocqueville Here We

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need to understand the passage as a full toe pick

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The answer that best summarizes the main idea While the

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start toqueville gives us the skinny on the colony's similarities

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he also talked about how the war with england brought

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the colonies together to fight for a common cause And

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finally the third paragraph says that after the war ended

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the colonies began to view their union as law and

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wanted to be more independent from each other Like old

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marriage Yeah You know you could imagine how that goes

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Anyway everybody needs a little me time regardless right with

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all that in mind we'll start by nixing option c

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like we said before toqueville gets things gone by listing

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the colony's similarities don't believe us then check out answer

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b which gives us all the similarities that toqueville lists

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Unfortunately for answers be however the colony's similarities are on

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ly part of the main idea He gives us half

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a pizza and we want whole thing were greedy like

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that he does the same thing is c The idea

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that the colony's union got wonky is part of the

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main idea but we're still missing a serious life The

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choice is the only answer that gives us everything we

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need The thirteen colonies were united as long is the

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war with england continued but when the war was over

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the colonies began to divide right well The colonies were

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super buddy buddy during the war but after they lost

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their common enemy they wanted some personal space It was

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at this time in american history that privacy fences became 00:02:25.38 --> [endTime] best sellers at home depot Creeds

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