By the eighteenth century, consumer goods such as books and ceramic plates:
a. were rare in the colonies, thus demonstrating that the colonists lived in a premodern world.
b. were specifically banned in the colonies by the Navigation Acts.
c. were manufactured in several mainland English colonies but had to be shipped to England for sale.
d. were almost entirely Dutch-made.
e. were found in many colonial residents’ homes.
Ans: e. were found in many colonial residents’ homes.
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