What Was the Destiny of an Increasing Number of Indentured

question 75

Multiple Choice

What was the destiny of an increasing number of indentured servants over the course of the seventeenth century?

• A) Most eventually became landowners.
• B) Many were forced into slavery.
• C) Many managed to run away from their masters toward the frontier.
• D) Many fell into landlessness and poverty.
• E) Most saw their wages increase.

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Definitions:

Median

The middle value in a data set when it is organized in ascending or descending order, or the average of the two middle values if the set has an even number of observations.

IQR

IQR, or Interquartile Range, is a measure of statistical variability, which is calculated as the difference between the 25th (first quartile) and the 75th percentile (third quartile) values in a data set, showing the spread of the middle 50% of the data.

Range

The gap between the maximum and minimum figures within a dataset.

Median

The middle value in a list of numbers, which separates the higher half from the lower half of the data set.