Read this excerpt from "A Modest Proposal": [T]he number of Popish infants, is at least three to one in
this kingdom, and therefore [my proposal) will have one
other collateral advantage, by lessening the number of
[Catholics) among us.
What is Swift making a satirical statement about?

the answer is b. hope this !

the colonial period, since this was a time of mass immigration from a variety of people from europe.

we pointed them north: recollections of a cowpuncher by e.c. “teddy blue” abbott tells us of the history of nomad cowboys in north america. as the   frontiers began moving west, trails of cowboys of the 1870s and ’80s drove herds of cattle from texas to the northern ranges and railheads, and then rode back south to do it again. they gradually pushed   native americans out of their lands, until in 1889 the   government transferred white   colonists the indian land.