Which of the Following Characterized Frontier Communities

question 102

Multiple Choice

Which of the following characterized frontier communities?

• A) cooperation among neighbors as a form of insurance in a rugged environment.
• B) communal households and a trend away from nuclear families and toward frontier polygamy.
• C) deep suspicion of neighbors or any outsiders who were not kin.
• D) widespread homosexuality because of a shortage of women on the frontier.
• E) matriarchal leadership, because the men tended to be away from home for months at a time.

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