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Read the passage about George Washington.
Monday, October 28. George Washington had been impatient since his departure from Philadelphia in early September. When he left the stricken city, he had put Secretary of War Henry Knox in charge of the government, giving the former general clear instructions to report to him weekly concerning the spread of yellow fever. But after a few days’ close contact with the pestilence, Knox found that his warrior instinct had abandoned him. He closed up his house and fled across New Jersey to Manhattan Island.
–An American Plague,
Jim Murphy
Why might the author of this passage have chosen a chronological organizational structure?
to vividly convey the experience of war
to give a clear sense of the sequence of events
to list the various problems George Washington faced
to show the effects of yellow fever on Philadelphia