The most numerous voluntary (nonslave) emigrants to british north america in the eighteenth
century came from which of the following groups?
a. scots-irish
b. english
c. germans
d. dutch

C. Germans

Explanation:

Germans began to migrate to US in 17th century and continued till 19th century. In the 18th century the economic problems acted as a push factor and  Germans came from the states of Wuerttemnerg, Baden and Hesse, Mainz and Muenster.

In 1850's almost one million Germans migrated to US. The newcomers joined the established settlers. Today, almost 58 million Americans are of German ancestry. Germans are found in California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Texas. Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota , North Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska are the states with most dense German-American population.

One piece of evidence that Duara uses in the passage to support his claim regarding Western racial attitudes and Japanese militarism in the second paragraph is where he says that Japan was allotted a lower quota of ships than the British and Americans.

Or you can say...

Discrimination was perceived in the international conferences in Washington (1922), the London Naval Conference (1930), and wherever Japan was allotted a lower quota of ships than the British and Americans. But most of all, it was the buildup of exclusionary policies in the United States and the final Exclusion Laws prohibiting Japanese immigration in 1924 that galled Japanese nationalists. In their view, Asian civilization did not exhibit inhuman racist attitudes and policies of this kind, and for [Japanese] militants . . . these ingrained civilizational differences would have to be fought out in a final, righteous war of the East against the West.”