In 1787, a Boston newspaper derisively referred to "Rogue Island" instead of Rhode island because
A) Rhode Island was a loyalist colony.
B) Rhode Island supported the rebels in the Civil War.
C) Rhode Island was the only state that did not send delegates to the meeting in Philadelphia.
D) Rhode Island passed the country's first sales tax in 1787.
E) Rhode Island refused to be the location of the Constitutional Convention.
C
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