Hello. I know you've already provided the answer. I'd like to confirm it and offer further explanation.
Answer:
The statement that best summarizes the central idea of this paragraph is:
2. America is a united country despite its cultural differences.
Explanation:
The paragraph we are analyzing here is an excerpt from the article "A Quilt of a Country", by author Anna Quindlen. Quindlen discusses how America is interestingly contradictory.
Just like a quilt, America is a result of dissimilar parts all patched together. All kinds of people, having to live in such close proximity, end up addressing one another with prejudice and even hatred. However, in spite of these differences and unlike other countries, America remains united. In the excerpt, the author mentions different groups and how they are frequently "on the verge of fisticuffs". Still, they are "impossibly interwoven". Therefore, the cultural differences may make things a bit more difficult, but they do not break this nation apart.
I would think it's "rejection of enlightenment ideas"
Answer: Hope this helps.
Explanation: States still found ways to circumvent the Constitution and prevent blacks from voting. Poll taxes, literacy tests, fraud and intimidation all turned African Americans away from the polls. Until the Supreme Court struck it down in 1915, many states used the "grandfather clause " to keep descendents of slaves out of elections. The clause said you could not vote unless your grandfather had voted -- an impossibility for most people whose ancestors were slaves.
Answer:
Context clues/background infomation
Explanation:
Context clues help you identify an unknown word. Hope this helped! :)
The answer is letter B<span> - The speaker is sleeping and is awakened by someone calling to him.
</span><span>When the speaker says, "While I nodded, nearly napping, ..." he is sleeping, because when you're about to sleep you'll usually nod your head back and forth right when you're drifting off.
Answer: Letter B
Hope that helps. -UF aka Nadoa</span>
