Read the passage below and answer the question that follows.

my friend, myla, is meeting with the school board today to persuade them to expand our student council from three members to nine, so that each grade can have three representatives. she says having only three students in control of all of the student council decisions is unfair when there are almost a thousand students in the school, and calls it a(n)
which vocabulary word would best fit in the blank above?

persuasion
oligarchy
indictment
discord

in that blank, i think the word oligarchy would fit best. good luck and i support what your doing. lmk how it goes :)

just took the test;

argument: "it's time to wage a war against britain to secure american freedom."

claims: "america has tried every peaceful method available for seperating from england" & "the americans' petitions to the king have been turned away by him."

invention of the washing machine

in the past, people used sticks and stones or scrub boards to clean their clothing. as it was sweaty, backbreaking work, we owe a world of to james king because he created the model for the modern washing machine in 1851. the most important issue was that this machine cleaned clothes while a person cranked the handle. doing this made people who used it develop strong muscles in their arms. later, in 1908, alva j. fisher created an electric washing machine named thor. this one was not the first automatic washing machine. however, it was one of the most popular models at the time.