"When the rail line reached Millford in 1868, wheat that had taken six days to reach market arrived in one. Because freight was cheap, two mills opened." How is this passage organized?

"Unlike the northern colonies, where farms were small and worked by families, the southern colonies depended on large plantations worked by enslaved laborers." Which structure organizes this sentence, and which word signals it?

"In March the delegates gathered. In May they finished a draft charter. By August every town had voted on it, and the charter took effect that November." How does the author present this information?

"Drought ruined the corn crop, so prices doubled. As a result, many families left the county, and the one-room school closed in 1894." Which words most clearly signal the pattern that organizes this passage?

"Whereas the eastern village shipped its goods downriver by flatboat, the western village depended on wagons hauled over a rutted road." What does this structure let the author emphasize?

"The strike began on April 3. Two weeks later the owners offered a small raise. Workers voted it down on May 1 and picketed again the next day." Which pattern organizes this?

"Piped water reached the mill district in 1897. Because clean water replaced the shallow wells, typhoid cases in the district fell by half within four years." How is this passage organized?

"The river port grew on trade in salted fish, while the inland town grew on the wool its farms produced. Neither traded much with the other." Which structure best describes this passage?

"The company hired 40 workers in 1902, 300 in 1905, and 1,100 in 1910, then closed the smallest of its three shops in 1912." What does this ordering let the author emphasize?

"A fire destroyed the wooden market hall in 1889. Since brick was now required downtown, the rebuilt blocks looked nothing like the ones the fire took." What does this structure stress?

"The first canal boats carried 30 tons apiece; by contrast, a single wagon team hauled barely two tons over the same distance." Which word or phrase signals the passage's organizing pattern?

"First the surveyors marked the route. Next crews cleared the timber. Finally the track was laid, and the line opened to passengers in the spring of 1873." Which signals organize this paragraph?

"When cotton prices collapsed, tenant families could not pay their rents. Landowners then cut the acreage they leased, and a third of the county's tenants moved away." Which pattern organizes this passage?

"Both settlements were founded on the same bay in the same decade. The northern one built a stone breakwater, however, while the southern one never raised one." How is this passage organized?

"The town's first newspaper appeared in 1841. A second began printing in 1856, and by 1870 three weekly papers were being sold on the same street." How is this information presented?

"A late frost killed the orchard's blossoms in May, so the fall harvest brought in almost nothing. Two families sold their land that winter." What does the author's chosen structure emphasize?

"The mining camp emptied within a year of the ore running out. The farming village nearby, which never boomed, still holds a school and a store." What does this structure show?

"Delegates argued over the tariff for three days. On the fourth they set it aside. A week later they took it up again and passed it by one vote." Which structure organizes this?

"The bridge toll was lifted in 1908. Traffic across the river tripled, and shops that had clustered on the ferry landing moved to the far bank within five years." How is the passage built?

"The mill on the north bank ran on water power until 1880. The one across the river, in contrast, had switched to steam a full decade earlier." How is this passage organized?