The Large Increase in the National Population Reflected in the 1810

question 47

Multiple Choice

The large increase in the national population reflected in the 1810 census resulted mainly from ________.

• A) the assimilation of whole tribes of Native Americans into the general population
• B) natural biological increase
• C) a huge increase in the importation of slaves from Africa
• D) the immigration of many thousands of Europeans fleeing the Napoleonic wars
• E) fabrication of census records by corrupt state officials who hoped to increase their congressional representation

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Definitions:

Short-run Phillips Curve

A representation in economics that shows an inverse relationship between the rate of unemployment and the rate of inflation in the short-term.

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