That is TRUE, the Intoerable Acts punished the colonials in Boston for undermining British Authority
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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.
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Common Sense was an instant best-seller. Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic.