Read the sentences, and then choose the best answer to the question or the best completion of the statement. Anxious to ensure that America would depart from European traditions regarding religion and royalty, the early U.S. could be described as a place that focused more on work than on the entertainment offered by spectacle and ceremony in the Old World. However, national celebrations such as the lighting of the White House Christmas Tree and the ceremonies used to swear in new federal officials five the American people some experiences that are based upon national tradition. What does the second sentence do?