This question has two parts. Answer Part A, and then answer Part B.
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In the passage, what is an important point the author makes about the role of colonial newspapers?
Question 1 Answer options with 4 options
1.
The newspapers caused a widespread shortage of paper.
2.
The newspapers were responsible for the colonists' revolt.
3.
The newspapers had considerable power to create change.
4.
The newspapers forced colonists to develop local industries.
Question 2
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Select ,begin emphasis,two,end emphasis, sentences from the passage that ,begin emphasis,best,end emphasis, help develop the author's point from Part A.
Question 2 Answer options with 5 options
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"Lawyers, whose documents were also taxed, were harmed by the Stamp Act as well, and together, newspaper publishers and lawyers led a successful campaign to repeal the act." (Paragraph 3)
2.
"The experience also pushed the newspaper publishers into taking a pro-independence stance, which was critical in winning over public opinion for the revolution." (Paragraph 3)
3.
"Newspapers vociferously protested." (Paragraph 4)
4.
"One American response to the Townshend Act, first suggested in 1767 and broadly promoted by newspapers the following year, was to boycott British goods." (Paragraph 5)
5.
"Newspapers had already started buying American paper in the mid-1760s, but with the Townshend Act, more and more of them were printed on American stock." (Paragraph 6)
Part A: The important point the author makes about the role of colonial newspapers is that they had considerable power to create change.
Part B:
1. "Lawyers, whose documents were also taxed, were harmed by the Stamp Act as well, and together, newspaper publishers and lawyers led a successful campaign to repeal the act." (Paragraph 3)
2. "The experience also pushed the newspaper publishers into taking a pro-independence stance, which was critical in winning over public opinion for the revolution." (Paragraph 3)