Which of the Following Helps Explain Why So Many Settlers

question 12

Multiple Choice

Which of the following helps explain why so many settlers in the Chesapeake region cultivated tobacco?

• A) They were required to do so by law.
• B) Tobacco cultivation required little farming experience.
• C) Tobacco prices rose dramatically over the course of the seventeenth century.
• D) Their colonial charters required them to do so.

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