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Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? In the early 1800s, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah created the first script, or writing system, for an Indigenous language in the United States. Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so accurately, his script was easy to learn and thus quickly achieved ________ blank use: by 1830, over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it.