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Which of the following best expresses why newspapers took quite some time to become popular in the American colonies? Censorship by the English governors was common. This meant that the info in newspapers was very limited and colonists got most of their news from gossip. They did not. Newspapers actually became incredibly popular in 1690 with the printing of the first newspaper. Colonists most often got their news this way due to the English governors restrict

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Option B, Censorship by the English governors was common. This meant that the info in newspapers was very limited and colonists got most of their news from gossip.

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"They did not. Newspapers actually became incredibly popular in 1690 with the printing of the first newspaper." Many colonists, including Benjamin Franklin were huge fans of the newspaper.
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