The Headright System

question 78

Multiple Choice

The headright system

• A)was established initially in Maryland.
• B)encouraged entire families to migrate to the New World.
• C)granted religious freedom to all Christians in Virginia.​
• D)granted an additional fifty acres of land for each additional person brought to the Virginia Colony by those who had paid for their own passage.
• E)None of these are correct.

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