A student is writing about responses to the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Worcester v. Georgia. She wants to integrate quotations from Cherokee leaders. Read this excerpt from her writing. Ridge writes, “Now before the explained laws are carried into effect, it will, I fear, first be necessary to cut down this Snake's head and throw it down in the dust” (1). Here, Ridge explains that Jackson must be defeated because he is a threat to the new laws. Which sentence, if added to the beginning of this paragraph, would best introduce the quotation? John Ridge said this. In a letter to Stand Watie, John Ridge said this. In a letter to Stand Watie, John Ridge compares Andrew Jackson to a snake. John Ridge worries that the laws will not take effect unless Andrew Jackson is defeated.