The legal concept under which the supreme court has nationalized the bill of rights by making most of its provisions applicable to the states through the 14th amendment is called

The north american colonies experienced a steady increase in population since the first settlement in jamestown in 1607. by 1775, the colonies' population was around 2,500,000, and most of the colonists lived east of the allegheny mountains. how did geography influence the settlement of america's first colonies?