By the Mid-Eighteenth Century,a Distinct Colonial Merchant Class Came into Existence

question 74

Multiple Choice

By the mid-eighteenth century,a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence because of

• A)the abolishment of the British Navigation Acts.
• B)the development of a substantial colonial manufacturing industry.
• C)illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire.
• D)ready access to manufactured goods.
• E)All these answers are correct.

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Definitions:

Positive Reinforcement

A behavioral strategy that involves adding a stimulus after a behavior to increase the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.

Negative Reinforcement

A process in operant conditioning where a response or behavior is strengthened by stopping, removing, or avoiding a negative outcome or aversive stimulus.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a pause, without further conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

A training technique involving the recurrent pairing of two stimuli, leading to a reaction initially provoked by the second stimulus being ultimately provoked by just the first stimulus.