Recently, Historians Have Increasingly Viewed the Colonial Period as One

question 76

Multiple Choice

Recently, historians have increasingly viewed the colonial period as one  

• A) in which the Puritans had been overlooked.
• B) of contact and adaptation between European and native populations.
• C) in which the settlement of the Caribbean has been stressed too much.
• D) in which economic ambition was the main reason all colonists came.
• E) All of these

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