Chapter 32. Reflections on A Tobacco Society, Chapter 3

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Correct. The answer is c. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that tobacco cultivation transformed the Chesapeake region from the fragile society that existed between 1607 and the 1620s, to a prosperous one by the turn of the century. The profitability of the new crop brought many new English settlers to the region who were willing to engage in agricultural work in order to reap the rewards it offered. It also attracted thousands of poor indentured servants who came with the hope that, once they earned their freedom, they too could join the ranks of tobacco planters in the Chesapeake.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that tobacco cultivation transformed the Chesapeake region from the fragile society that existed between 1607 and the 1620s, to a prosperous one by the turn of the century. The profitability of the new crop brought many new English settlers to the region who were willing to engage in agricultural work in order to reap the rewards it offered. It also attracted thousands of poor indentured servants who came with the hope that, once they earned their freedom, they too could join the ranks of tobacco planters in the Chesapeake.

Correct. The answer is b. In order to demonstrate that the opportunities offered by tobacco cultivation provided a new incentive for English settlers to come to the Chesapeake, the author demonstrates that 80 percent of new settlers came to the region as indentured servants. These poor English men and women could not afford to pay for the trip across the Atlantic, but willingly sold their freedom to tobacco planters for seven years in order to take advantage of the possibility that they, too, might someday be able to own land and grow the profitable crop.

Incorrect. The answer is b. In order to demonstrate that the opportunities offered by tobacco cultivation provided a new incentive for English settlers to come to the Chesapeake, the author demonstrates that 80 percent of new settlers came to the region as indentured servants. These poor English men and women could not afford to pay for the trip across the Atlantic, but willingly sold their freedom to tobacco planters for seven years in order to take advantage of the possibility that they, too, might someday be able to own land and grow the profitable crop.

Correct. The answer is b. In order to support his suggestion that the tobacco-based economy led to the development of more complex social institutions in the Chesapeake, the author describes the laws that Chesapeake colonists enacted in the seventeenth century to regulate the work and behavior of indentured servants and require attendance at Sunday services and conformity to the Church of England for all white inhabitants.

Incorrect. The answer is b. In order to support his suggestion that the tobacco-based economy led to the development of more complex social institutions in the Chesapeake, the author describes the laws that Chesapeake colonists enacted in the seventeenth century to regulate the work and behavior of indentured servants and require attendance at Sunday services and conformity to the Church of England for all white inhabitants.

Correct. The answer is c. The author writes that it was very difficult for rural laborers to find jobs as farmhands in England in the seventeenth century because country landowners were shifting from growing crops to raising sheep. These former farmhands made up the largest proportion of young adults who contracted as indentured servants in order to migrate to the Chesapeake.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The author writes that it was very difficult for rural laborers to find jobs as farmhands in England in the seventeenth century because country landowners were shifting from growing crops to raising sheep. These former farmhands made up the largest proportion of young adults who contracted as indentured servants in order to migrate to the Chesapeake.

Correct. The answer is a. The author supports his argument that indentured servants frequently resisted their masters’ demands by documenting the passage of laws intended to regulate servants’ behavior more strongly, and policies that permitted planters to mete out harsh punishments for servants who violated the terms of those laws.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author supports his argument that indentured servants frequently resisted their masters’ demands by documenting the passage of laws intended to regulate servants’ behavior more strongly, and policies that permitted planters to mete out harsh punishments for servants who violated the terms of those laws.

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