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Which of the Following Best Sums Up Population Diversity in Colonial

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


A) From the beginning of British settlement, the colonies were highly diverse in race and religion.
B) Great Britain originally promoted emigration to the colonies as a means of ridding itself of excess population but cut back in the eighteenth century, opening the colonies to a more diverse group of settlers.
C) Men and women arrived in almost equal numbers because British officials encouraged women to leave, believing that fewer women in the mother country would equal slower population growth.
D) Great Britain 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.
E) Germans were the only non-British group allowed to live in the colonies.

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