Hurry were union meetings often held in secret? select one: a. business owners only allowed union members to meet in private. b. union members had to pay additional taxes. c. workers were afraid of being fired. d. union meetings were illegal.

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?