Identify the Statement That Is False

question 65

Multiple Choice

Identify the statement that is false.  

• A) The population of the thirteen colonies, mainly Anglo-Saxon, was the least mixed to be found anywhere in the world.
• B) The South, holding about 90 percent of the slaves, displayed its historic black-and-white racial composition.
• C) New England, mostly staked out by the original Puritan migrants, showed the least ethnic diversity.
• D) The Middle Colonies received the bulk of later white immigrants and boasted the most variety of peoples.
• E) In 1775, outside of New England, about one-half the population was non-English.

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Definitions:

Anxious Distress

A specifier used in diagnostic criteria to indicate the presence of anxiety symptoms alongside another condition.

Persistent Depressive Disorder

A chronic form of depression where a person experiences a depressed mood for most of the day, for more days than not, for at least two years.

Major Depressive Disorder

Disorder involving a sad mood or anhedonia plus four or more of the following symptoms: weight loss or a decrease in appetite, insomnia or hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation or retardation, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness or severe guilt, trouble concentrating, and suicidal ideation; these symptoms must be present for at least 2 weeks and must produce marked impairments in normal functioning.

Hallucination

A perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception, often seen in psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia.