What is the purpose of this section of text?

Read this sentence from the text:

For generations the two sections had been drifting apart. Since the middle of the seventeenth century, Mason and Dixon's line had been a line of real division separating two inherently distinct portions of the country.

What is the main purpose of this section of text?

To detail the sections that will follow.

To explain the period of time before the war.

To restate the main idea of this section.

To summarize the many causes of the war.

For edgenuity the answer would be "To provide the history of sugar cane use".

Explanation:

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the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .