In the house, the assigns a bill to a committee. a. minority leader b. speaker c. vice president d. presiding officer

The correct answer is B. Speaker.

A speaker from the house of representatives assigns bills to a House committee, which is the first step towards something becoming a law.

The second , larger puritan colony of massachusetts bay was conceived as a "city upon a hill". but it also struggled with internal turmoil like the salem witch trials and external conflicts like king philip's (metacom's) war.