Indentured Servants Were Important to the Development of the Seventeenth-Century

question 2

Multiple Choice

Indentured servants were important to the development of the seventeenth-century Chesapeake because they

• A) were usually artisans who brought needed skills to the area.
• B) provided a relatively cheap and abundant source of labor for Chesapeake tobacco planters.
• C) brought new ideas concerning the cultivation and cure of tobacco.
• D) provided labor for important public projects undertaken by the colonial governments of Virginia and Maryland.

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