Which of the Following Terms Was Related to Land Policy

question 54

Multiple Choice

Which of the following terms was related to land policy in New York?

• A) patroonship
• B) headright
• C) royal grants
• D) plantation tracts
• E) Dutch estates

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Definitions:

Seventeenth-Century Virginia

Refers to the English colony in North America during the 1600s, a period of early settlement, tobacco cultivation, and African enslavement.

Elite Plantation-Owning Class

Refers to the class of individuals or families who owned large areas of land used for agricultural production, specifically plantations, which often relied on enslaved labor in pre-Civil War America and other colonial contexts.

Puritans

English religious group that sought to purify the Church of England; founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony under John Winthrop in 1630.

English Protestants

Members of the Protestant faith within England, a Christian movement that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century.