Hello. The correct question is:
16. Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s:
a. were groups of women, well known for their letter-writing skills, who sought to promote Mary Wollstonecraft's ideas.
b. wrote King George repeatedly about the importance of rescinding letters of marque, which licensed individuals to seize property.
c. were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts.
d. sought to unite various amateur science clubs, most notably Franklin's Junto, together with other such colonial organizations.
Answer:
were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts.
Explanation:
The correspondence committees that were established during colonial America were created by Samueal Adams to establish communication between all the leaders of the thirteen colonies who believed that it was possible to break ties with England and form an independent country. These committees were formed by a group of intellectuals and men with socially prominent positions, who made up the elites of each colony. They exchanged ideas about the resistance of Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts.
Answer:
d
Explanation:
urges higher taxes to increase spending on government programs
"Companies were guilty of unwise lending practices" and "<span>The Federal government was guilty of poor policies" are both correct since there was lots of "loose lending" that allowed people who weren't prepared to purchase homes.</span>
Answer:
I'm pretty sure it's B hope that helps
I believe that the correct option is C; the source of the passage is likely to be biased because the author is an example of the people he writes about.
Andrew Carnegie was a businessman native from Scotland, he emigrates to USA when he was a kid and at the early age of 18 he started working from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, before that he had been working since he was 13 when he arrived United States but in the Railroad Company was where he stand out. At the age of 20 he was already the manager and apprentice of Thomas Scott, the owner of the company. Later he created the Carnegie Steel Company to be more focus on the iron business, he also had bought mines near the Pittsburgh area. That was the beginning of the construction of a big iron empire. Finally the Carnegie Steel Company was sold to JP Morgan in 1901 for $480 million dollars and there is were the philantropist career of Carnegie started.
Even thought he paid the minimun wage during his years as industrial, Andrew invest almost half of his salary in the creation of libraries, schools, universities and a trust fund for the oldest employees.
As a philantropist he donated money to different causes but his favorite was the construction of libraries troughout all America. He also give millons of dollars for the reconstruction of Johnstown Pennsylvania after a flood that he felt responsible for. And finally he build in Manhattan the famous Carnegie Hall.
