Which statements about the settlement of the english colonies in north america are true? choose all answers that are correct. a. the first jamestown settlers were unprepared to farm, hunt, and work hard to survive. b. the puritans settled most the region that is now called the southern states. c. the major goal of the jamestown settlement was to establish freedom of religion. d. the puritans arrived in north america ready to honor god by working hard, building houses, and planting crops.

an economic reason that the south needed a reconstruction plan is that plantations, factories, and other businesses were destroyed during the war.

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.