Which is true of loyalists around the time the revolutionary war began?
a) most loyalists came from the southern colonies.
b) loyalists were limited to government employees.
c) most colonists were loyalists.
d) loyalists came from every colony and all sections of the population

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.

porter is writing economic history because he is focusing on the cost of developing vaccines.