Read this excerpt about elizabeth van lew from the dark game. she became a spymaster, the person responsible for running a network of agents, couriers, and safe houses that was very active during the war. in addition to the spying, elizabeth van lew continued to maintain her church hill home as a safe house and something of a local union spy headquarters. how does this excerpt develop the central idea that elizabeth van lew expand the role of women in society? check all that apply. it states how van lew acted as an important leader and manager at a time when women were generally discouraged from taking on those roles. it shows that van lew was dedicated to a cause outside of her family and worked hard for her beliefs. it illustrates how van lew became the most successful spy during the war and greatly the union army, though she was a woman. it describes how van lew organized women to fight for their legal rights and equal representation in government.

The correct answers are A. It states how Van Lew acted as an important leader and manager at a time when women were generally discouraged from taking on those roles and B. It shows that Van Lew was dedicated to a cause outside of her family and worked hard for her beliefs.

Explanation:

A central idea is the main point or idea that the author aims at developing in a text or section of it, in this case, the central idea is the way Elizabeth Van Lew expanded the role of women in society. Additionally, the central idea in texts is usually supported or developed by sub-ideas that can include statements, evidence, examples, description details and others that explain and give information related to the central idea of the text. This means, in this case, the ideas that explain the central idea should tell the reader the way in which Elizabeth Van Lew expanded the role of the women in society or the reasons why the author believes this.

Because of this during the text, the author develops two main ideas, int first one the author explains Elizabeth Van Lew was a spymaster that became the leader of a network that supported spy activities during the war. While in the second one there is an emphasis on Elizabeth Van Lew's role in regards to the use of places as headquarters and safe houses for the Union spies. The first idea suggest Elizabeth Van Lew role as the leader of the spy network differ from the traditional role of women during the 19th century as most women were not leaders and the second idea suggest Elizabeth Van Lew dedicated her life to being the leader of the network and a spy because she really believed in this cause and because of this she even used her house as part of her duty and went beyond the family context that limited most women by then.

Thus, the central idea is mainly developed through two main ideas the first one concerns Van Lew as a leader in contrast to the roles of the women back then and the second one is about Van Lew being dedicated to the cause and not limiting her life to the family context that was also very common for women during the age Elizabeth Van Lew lived.

The correct answers are options:

A) It states how Van Lew acted as an important leader and manager at a time when women were generally discouraged from taking on those roles.

B) It shows that Van Lew was dedicated to a cause outside of her family and worked hard for her beliefs.

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the correct answer is (a) . answer should be simple, clear and brief.

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