Which of the following best sums up population diversity in colonial English America?
A. Men and women arrived in almost equal numbers because English officials encouraged women to leave, believing that fewer women in the mother country would equal slower population growth.
B. From the beginning of English settlement, the colonies were highly diverse in race and religion.
C. Germans were the only non-British group allowed to live in the colonies.
D. England urged professionals and skilled craftspeople to go to its colonies in America because it wanted to create a model society there, but eventually it began to urge vagabonds and "masterless men" to go instead.
E. England originally promoted emigration to the colonies as a means of ridding itself of excess population but cut back in the eighteenth century.
