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If the question is talking about the way itself then the answer would be A, as the war was in fact a very popular event in Britain. The person who said it was C is incorrect as the British were very well supplied by loyalist farmers and the Navy, which was one of their advantages.
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The correct answer is C) To introduce the reader to a famous American
If the author begins this article with a story of George Washington Carver was because he introduced the reader to a famous American.
George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an African American inventor and researcher who was a professor of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He was the Director of the Agriculture School in the Institute in 1896 after Booker T. Washing had hired him. He did plenty of research on the use of peanuts to produce many products.