Which statement best describes the introduction of a document-based essay?

a. the introduction states the writer’s viewpoint and sets up the main points of the essay.
b. the introduction provides facts and examples that are relevant to the topic of the essay.
c. the introduction includes information from the documents and outside sources to support the essay.
d. the introduction reinforces the viewpoint and states what readers should take away from the essay.

He seventeenth amendment to the us constitution calls for the direct election of all us senators. this means that the people of each state get to vote to decide who will be their two us senators. before this, the legislatures of each state chose the two us senators from that state with no direct involvement of the average voter. why would this amendment be considered a reform? how would it benefit the people? even today some people claim that the seventeenth amendment was a bad idea. what arguments could be made for reverting selection of us senators back to the state legislatures?

Prior to the presence of europeans on the continent, the slave trade in africa a) did not exist in any form. b) was limited to internal trade only. c) included the trans-saharan and indian ocean slave trade. d) was rarely needed due to the lack of an agricultural economy.

What does the document of the birtish octopus is an uderlying cause of the world war 1