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The purpose of the second paragraph (lines 7–11) is primarily to
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Okay Next up ap ingle angers here we go The
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purpose of the second paragraph on line seven through eleven
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is primarily to do what Let's cruise up to on
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line seven There we go The label has stuck now
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usually applied to the period extended from the election of
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values that grand in eighteen sixty eight the elevation of
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roosevelt to the presidency term twenty century The term gilded
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age has survived because historians have found a great deal
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Validity in twenty ten dollars characterization of their own time
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Alright interesting Let's think about this Tween and dudley got
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it in the moment They could tell what was happening
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but it's only after the fact that historians knew whether
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they were right or not which is what the second
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paragraph confirms It essentially zooms out and gives the full
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context of what historians consider the gilded age Well the
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author doesn't provide any more information about twain and dudley
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government Well they're a considered correct so you're out of
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a rather than offering a competing theory Historians have confirmed
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the two men's hypothesis so get rid of be though
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the author stopped short of praising them and you just
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get rid of the right there While twin and dudley
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were introduced in the first paragraph and grant has mentioned
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on ly in these lines so get rid of sea
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So the right answer here Yeah it's deep Add context
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to the phenomenon described earlier That's it Where d is 00:01:20.114 --> [endTime] in done
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