Large Landholders Sometimes Responded to the Shortage of Agricultural Workers

question 44

Multiple Choice

Large landholders sometimes responded to the shortage of agricultural workers as a result of the Black Death by:

• A) forcing tenants to do more unpaid labor, imposing new taxes, and requiring new forms of servitude.
• B) paying their laborers less.
• C) consolidating their holdings and selling off land they did not have the manpower to cultivate.
• D) investing money in new technologies and laborsaving devices.
• E) buying slaves from West Africa to work on their lands.

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