How Did the Decline in the Price of Tobacco in the Third

question 4

Multiple Choice

How did the decline in the price of tobacco in the third quarter of the seventeenth century change the Chesapeake?

• A) Tobacco became less important.
• B) More freed servants bought land.
• C) Fewer servants survived their indenture.
• D) Social divisions emerged.

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