8. The American colonies were more like each other than like England in every way EXCEPT They had to deal with religious disputes.
they had to deal with an ethnically and racially diverse population.
they had to deal with Indian tribes as neighbors.
they had to deal with a wild physical environment.

The second option

Explanation:

They had to deal with an ethnically and racially diverse population

president jefferson protested this interference in american trade. he sent james monroe to london to negotiate a treaty. jefferson wanted britain to stop taking sailors from american ships, and to stop interfering in the trade of neutral nations. monroe tried many times to discuss such an agreement. but the british foreign minister was always too busy to see him.

explanation:

the fact that could also be added to column b is that during world war ii, specifically between the years 1941 and 1945, japan expanded its territory towards the indonesian territory in what was known later as part of the "pacific war". in that time, japan could conquer the philipines, singapore,   borneo, central java, malang, cebu, sumatra and various other islands of the area, therefore expanding its territory for a brief period of time.