By the Mid-1700s, the Number of Poor People in the American

question 120

Multiple Choice

By the mid-1700s, the number of poor people in the American colonies  

• A) became greater than in all of Europe.
• B) had increased to the point of overpopulation.
• C) had begun to decline from seventeenth-century levels.
• D) remained tiny compared with the number in England.
• E) was about one-third of the population.

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