The Households in Puritan New England Were Large Because They

question 17

Multiple Choice

The households in Puritan New England were large because they

• A)often consisted of at least three generations with the majority of children living in the same household as parents and grandparents,sometimes great-grandparents.
• B)included parents,children,extended kin such as unmarried aunts,and other unrelated people such as boarders,apprentices and/or servants.
• C)included two or three nuclear families,most often the families of two or three brothers along with their parents.

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