Most of the eighteenth-century population growth in the British colonies in North America was due to
a. continuing migrations from England.
b. natural increase resulting in part from the healthy colonial environment.
c. the influx of political refugees from wars in France and Germany.
d. medical advances that dramatically lowered infant mortality rates.
b
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A) She trained women immigrants to read and write. B) She campaigned for better treatment of the mentally handicapped. C) She was the leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. D) She was an advocate for helping battered women in the 1840s.
In the aftermath of Nat Turner's rebellion, the Virginia legislature:
A) debated and defeated a proposal on gradual abolition. B) immediately voted to require the death penalty for any rebellious slave. C) passed a law permitting masters to manumit their slaves. D) petitioned Congress to reopen the international slave trade.
The author of Guide for the Perplexed was ______________.
A. Aristotle B. Avicenna C. Averroës D. Maimonides E. Menifiores
In the United States Government, members of the Cabinet are directly responsible to the
a. Congress b. Senate c. Supreme Court d. President