Which of the following best describes the condition of roads in the late 1700s?
a. they had steadily improved from roman times through the middle ages to the late 1700s.
b. they were muddy and rutted, inflicting on coach travelers bone-jarring injuries.
c. they were in a bad state but it mattered little because no one used them.
d. they had never been in better condition and spurred trade between cities and countries.

Read the following passage. the early mill girls were of different ages. some were not over ten years old; a few were in middle life, but the majority were between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five. the very young girls were called "doffers." they "doffed," or took off, the full bobbins from the spinning frames, and replaced them with empty ones. based on the passage, early mill girls were mostly young. were mostly middle aged. were of a variety of ages. were mostly children.

Explain how zollverein, a tariff agreement, to unite the german states.

Business people who received land grants to recruit new settlers to the area were known by what term