Examples of Colonial Experience with Self-Governance, Which Prepared Americans for a Republic

question 47

Multiple Choice

Examples of colonial experience with self-governance, which prepared Americans for a republic, included all of the following EXCEPT

• A) New England town meetings.
• B) committees of correspondence.
• C) militia service.
• D) the relative equality of landowning farmers.
• E) the absence of a hereditary aristocracy.

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Definitions:

Ferns

A group of non-flowering vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have feathery or leafy fronds.

Seeds

Embryonic plants enclosed in a protective outer covering, capable of developing into a new plant under appropriate conditions.

Prothallus

A gametophyte stage, particularly in ferns and lycophytes, that is free-living, photosynthetic, and produces the sexual organs where gametes are formed.

Moss Spore

The reproductive unit of mosses, capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion, important for moss propagation.