The answer to the question is A. It wants me to write a long sentence even tho I don’t want to so I will repeat myself and say it is A
Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence.
A dependent clause cannot stand alone : An independent clauses expresses a thought on its own
