Read the body paragraph from an informative essay on alligators. Facilities used to hatch and develop young alligators must meet standards set up by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. They must be heated and able to contain, filter, and drain water. These facilities can raise alligators until they reach about three to five feet in length. At that point, the animals must be released into the wild. Alligators who have been raised in artificial conditions have a strong chance of survival.

Which statement is the most effective topic sentence to add to this paragraph?

Reptiles, like alligators, lay soft-shelled eggs from which their young hatch.
In 1986, Louisiana began a program to raise alligators in artificial conditions.
The buildings in a facility are usually partitioned to limit the number of alligators.
Alligators are tagged when they are released to monitor their progress in the wild.

b. major john c. frémont led a rebellion called the bear flag revolt.

explanation:

during the bear flag revolt, from june to july 1846, a small group of american settlers in california rebelled against the mexican government and proclaimed california an independent republic. the republic was short-lived because soon after the bear flag was raised, the u.s. military began occupying california, which went on to join the union in 1850. the bear flag became the official state flag in 1911.

1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.