By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence, in part because of
A. the development of a substantial colonial manufacturing industry.
B. illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire.
C. All these answers are correct.
D. the abolishment of the British Navigation Acts.
E. new access by non-British ships to the colonial carrying trade.
B
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a. They threatened to raise taxes if poor whites voted against them. b. They made free land, or homesteads, available to poor whites in most states. c. They attempted to create solidarity among whites by emphasizing racial divisions between blacks and whites. d. They supported public education in the belief that an educated electorate would keep the "better sort" inpower.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Mormonism was founded by Brigham Young.
a. true b. false