Why Did Apprenticeship and Indentured Servitude Decline After the Revolution

question 86

Multiple Choice

Why did apprenticeship and indentured servitude decline after the Revolution?

• A) King George III had supported them,and anything associated with the king was unpopular in the United States.
• B) Many apprentices and indentures had refused to fight in the Revolution,and their bosses,resenting them for it,got rid of them.
• C) Thomas Paine's criticism of them in Common Sense greatly influenced the many who had read his pamphlet.
• D) Northerners were outlawing slavery in their state constitutions and began to eliminate apprenticeship and indentured servitude as well amid southern charges of hypocrisy.
• E) The lack of freedom inherent in apprenticeship and indentured servitude struck growing numbers of Americans as incompatible with republican citizenship.

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