Which passage uses a transition word or phrase to connect two related ideas? a) It has taken almost a century for the ERA to get this far, and its fate remains unclear. This suggests that there is significant opposition either to the idea of women's full equality or to law itself.
b) Congresswoman Martha Griffith filed a petition to get the ERA released from committee so that it could be debated and voted on. The petition got enough signatures, but some lawmakers added some language that would exempt women from the draft, and this killed the bill for that year.
c) Alice Paul, a well-known activist in the suffragist movement, first proposed the idea of a women’s rights amendment. It was called the "Lucretia Mott Amendment" in honor of another famous suffragist.
d) The founding document of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, states that "all men are created equal." However, not all Americans have been treated equally since the country was founded.