Which of the Following Best Sums Up Population Diversity in Colonial

question 26

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best sums up population diversity in colonial English America?

• A) From the beginning of English settlement, the colonies were highly diverse in race and religion.
• B) England originally promoted emigration to the colonies as a means of ridding itself of excess population but cut back in the eighteenth century.
• C) Men and women arrived in almost equal numbers because English officials encouraged women to leave, believing that fewer women in the mother country would equal slower population growth.
• D) England urged professionals and skilled craftspeople to go to its colonies in America because it wanted to create a model society there, but eventually it began to urge vagabonds and "masterless men" to go instead.

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