In Eighteenth-Century New England,the Notion That Parents Would Pay Grown

question 70

Multiple Choice

In eighteenth-century New England,the notion that parents would pay grown children for their past labors in exchange for the privilege of choosing the children's spouses was known as

• A) common law.
• B) the marriage portion.
• C) primogeniture.
• D) household production.

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