Use the following paragraph to answer the question.
The famous social reformer Frederick Douglass was born in 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He was mostly raised by his grandmother. Douglass was born a slave and remained so until 1838, when he escaped slavery by borrowing the papers of a freed slave and moved to New York. Just a few years before, in 1836, he was hired out and worked in a shipyard in Baltimore. He joined the East Baltimore Improvement Society there in 1837.
Which of the following entries would come last in a timeline created from the information provided in the paragraph above?
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Responses
1818 Douglass is born in Tuckahoe, Maryland
1818 Douglass is born in Tuckahoe, Maryland
1837 Douglass joins the East Baltimore Improvement Society
1837 Douglass joins the East Baltimore Improvement Society
1836 Douglass is hired out to work in a shipyard in Baltimore
1836 Douglass is hired out to work in a shipyard in Baltimore
1838 Douglass escapes slavery and moves to New York
1838 Douglass escapes slavery and moves to New York
1838 Douglass escapes slavery and moves to New York
To determine which of the given entries would come last in a timeline, we need to arrange the events in chronological order based on the information provided in the paragraph.
Here is the correct chronological order of the events:
1. 1818 Douglass is born in Tuckahoe, Maryland
2. 1836 Douglass is hired out to work in a shipyard in Baltimore
3. 1837 Douglass joins the East Baltimore Improvement Society
4. 1838 Douglass escapes slavery and moves to New York
As we can see, the last event mentioned in the paragraph is "1838 Douglass escapes slavery and moves to New York." Therefore, the entry "1838 Douglass escapes slavery and moves to New York" would come last in the timeline.