It was the population policy of the 21st century.
When 20th century ends, the desirable social goal
was sustained and broadly accepted from local and regional levels to the world.
To most citizens of America, the population is not really an issue, but it has
been for the past decades because low population may mean demographic issues.
Colonists went through a starving period (C.) in which they ate rats and other inadequate sources of food
A. The supply of farmland exceeded the demand.
The farmers had serious economic problems and most of it were caused by the fact that they were becoming too productive. Since they were producing too much, prices went down.
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At the Constitutional Convention, it was the proposal that representation in Congress would be proportional to the population size of the state that caused smaller states to become upset.