The New York Colony

question 50

Multiple Choice

The New York colony

• A) had its founding proprietors from the Carolina colony.
• B) made a commitment to representative assemblies.
• C) emerged after a struggle between the English and the Dutch.
• D) saw its population grow slowly for its first fifty years.
• E) banned slavery from its inception.

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