The Life Expectancy of the First Generations of Puritan Colonists

question 81

Multiple Choice

The life expectancy of the first generations of Puritan colonists was

• A) about forty-five years.
• B) notably higher than that of present-day Americans.
• C) about seventy years, not much different from present-day Americans.
• D) less than that of people in the South
• E) less than what it had been in Europe.

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