While preparing a presentation on the history of written language in North America, a student takes the following notes:
* In 1821, Sequoyah completed the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system representing the syllables of the Cherokee language.
* Prior to Sequoyah's invention, the Cherokee language was purely oral, and literacy in English among Cherokee people was very low.
* By 1830, Cherokee literacy rates in their own language reached over 90 percent.
* In 1828, the Cherokee Nation established a bilingual newspaper, the *Cherokee Phoenix*, which utilized Sequoyah's syllabary.
The student wants to support the claim that Sequoyah’s writing system led to a rapid and dramatic increase in literacy among Cherokee people. Which choice most effectively uses information from the given notes to support this claim?
- Within less than a decade after Sequoyah completed the Cherokee syllabary in 1821, Cherokee literacy rates rose from nearly nonexistent to over 90 percent.Cevap
- BSequoyah’s writing system, completed in 1821, was a syllabary representing the spoken syllables of the Cherokee language.
- CBefore Sequoyah completed his syllabary in 1821, over 90 percent of Cherokee people were already literate in English.
- DSequoyah’s syllabary was so successful that it was widely adopted by neighboring Indigenous tribes, leading to similar literacy rises across North America.