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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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