Read the passage from The American Plague.Finally, Washington turned to Attorney General Edmund Randolph. As the nation's chief law official and legal counsel of the United States, Randolph was someone whose opinion held great weight. In a delicately worded letter, Randolph told Washington that no, the president could not move Congress, even in an emergency. "It seems to be unconstitutional," Randolph noted.Which sentence contains the central idea of the passage?
Read the passage from The American Plague.Knox found that his warrior instinct had abandoned him. He closed up his house and fled across New Jersey to Manhattan Island.Knox was turned away from Manhattan and wound up in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, where he spent two weeks in quarantine.This passage contains
Read the passage from The American Plague.Monday, October 28. George Washington had been impatient since his departure from Philadelphia in early September. When he left the stricken city, he had put Secretary of War Henry Knox in charge of the government, giving the former general clear instructions to report to him weekly concerning the spread of yellow fever. But after a few days' close contact with the pestilence, Knox found that his warrior instinct had abandoned him. He closed up his house and fled across New Jersey to Manhattan Island.What is the most likely reason the story begins with this cause-and-effect relationship?
What was one effect of the yellow fever epidemic described in The American Plague?
Read the passage from The American Plague.All along the way Jefferson chafed at the jump in prices brought about by "harpies who prey upon travelers" returning to Philadelphia. Inns on the route had upped their rates; ferrymen were charging extra to transport people and carriages across rivers. In the end, Jefferson estimated that it cost him nearly eighty dollars just to get to Germantown.What was the cause of the jump in prices?
Someone or something that produces a result is a
Read the passage from The American Plague.No one would ever know precisely how many Philadelphians died of yellow fever in 1793. Many of those who traditionally kept such count—ministers, sextons, and city officials—had either fled the city or been ill themselves. The best estimates put the number of victims at between four and five thousand men, women, and children. What was clear to all was that life would never be the same. The fear had gone too deep, the losses were all too real and personal.Which statement summarizes the central idea of this passage?
Read the passage from The American Plague.The reemergence of the deadly disease did not stop people from returning to the city. It did, however, leave a lingering sense of helplessness. Well into December, individuals were still succumbing to the fever, and Thomas Jefferson was worrying over which houses were safe to enter. "Yellow fever," he predicted, "will discourage the growth of great cities in the nation."The central idea of the passage is that
What is an effect?
Read the passage from The American Plague.A very embarrassed George Washington finally had to confess to Lee, "I brought no public papers of any sort (not even the rules which have been established in these cases,) along with me."What does Washington define in this passage?
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