7. in a bag of marbles, 35 of the marbles are blue and the restane
marbles is doubled and the number of blue marbles stays the same
the marbles are blue and the rest are red. if the number of red
and the number of blue marbles stays the same, what fraction of the
marbles will be red?

no because after the troops were pulled many blacks were killed by hangings lynchings and other cruel ways which in a way interrupted the reconstruction of the south and differed from the way abraham lincoln had an idea of reconstruction

this excerpt is taken from the book “we shall not be moved : the women’s factory strike of 1909 “ and is written by joan dash. it is the story of the great strike when almost 30thousand women working in factories in america formed a union to fight unsafe working conditions, long working hours and miserable wages.

question: which best states the author’s purpose for including this information in the text?

answer: to challenge the reader’s ideas about a historical event