What Was a Difference Between the Rights in Marriage of Women

question 9

Multiple Choice

What was a difference between the rights in marriage of women in the Chesapeake region and those of women in New England in the 1600s?

• A) Women in the Chesapeake region tended to have more power because they were fewer in number and thus began from a better bargaining position.
• B) Women in New England had more rights because there were more women there and they had greater strength as a community.
• C) Women in New England had fewer rights because the colonists there came from more strict and traditional backgrounds.
• D) Women in the Chesapeake region tended to have fewer rights because the planter class had more restrictions on the roles of women in society.
• E) Women in New England had fewer rights because the women there tended to live much shorter lives than those in the Chesapeake region.

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