Which of the Following Statements Exemplifies How "Freedom and Lack

question 48

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements exemplifies how "freedom and lack of freedom" characterized seventeenth-century America?

• A) The settlers' success involved depriving Native Americans of their land and enslaving large numbers of Africans.
• B) The New England Puritans gained economic freedom but lost any sort of religious freedom in the New World.
• C) The northern colonists' success depended on depriving the southern colonists of all agricultural success.
• D) Catholics became the immigrant group with the most freedom-at the expense of Protestants, who lost their freedom.
• E) In Virginia, indentured servants took more and more of the wealthy landowners' land, leaving them impoverished.

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