20 years would be my answer
In expository writing, a topic sentence is a sentence that summarizes the main idea of a paragraph. It is usually the first sentence in a paragraph. What is your question regarding a topic statement?
Answer:
b. he felt forced into making a medicine
D is the only sentence with the correct usage of quotation marks.
The author used this analogy to show that the Iroquois Confederacy that the system they used was effective and equal everyone involved rather than just one entity (making them interconnected).