How did join-stock companies contribute to the European race for empire in the seventeenth-century? 1. Joint-stock companies provided explorers with supplies for their voyages.

2. Joint-stock companies pooled resources to sponsor voyages as a gamble on potential profits and losses.

3. Joint-stock companies acted a liaison between explorers and monarchs.

4. Joint-stock companies oversaw relations with Native American groups.

How did the large influx of immigrants change america?

Which scenario is least likely to occur in a market economy? a) the government pays farmers to stop planting certain crops for a period of time. b) the government stops a factory from producing imitations of an expensive type of purse. c) the government offers tax breaks to companies that meet efficiency goals in their products. d) the government allows only two competitors to offer goods for sale on the country's highways.

Which of these is a lower subgroup a. kingdom b. order c.genus d. species