Read the passage from The American Plague.Whenever the Parliament clashed with their monarch, the king would get his way by suddenly convening Parliament in a remote, unreachable part of the country. Without a proper quorum of members, the king could then decide law as he pleased.As a result, representatives in the United States had drawn up the Constitution with particular attention to the issue of where they would meet in the future.The best reason why the last sentence is an effect is because it defines
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?
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
What was one effect of the yellow fever epidemic described in The American Plague?
In what year did the yellow fever epidemic described in The American Plague have some of its worst effects?
Read the passage from The American Plague. Adding to his frustration was the fact that very few official papers had made their way to him at Mount Vernon. Washington was a stickler for orderly files that he could search at a moment's notice. This was the most important way he kept himself informed about the hundreds of things happening in the fledgling nation. Unfortunately, when the government clerks had panicked and dashed from Philadelphia, they had abandoned all papers and records in boarded-up houses.Which line from the passage can be defined as the cause?
Someone or something that produces a result is a
What was the cause of the yellow fever epidemic described in The American Plague?
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.Alexander Hamilton felt the president could indeed move Congress. After all, Hamilton reasoned, the government would not automatically cease functioning if an enemy army captured the capital. Why wouldn't the same principle apply in the case of a devastating natural disaster, such as a plague?But Thomas Jefferson and James Madison disagreed and could not be budged from their position. During the formation of the federal government, they argued, individual states had been extremely wary about giving away too much of their governing power to any future president.Why is this passage best defined as a cause?
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