By the end of the seventeenth century, indentured servants who gained their freedom
a. often gained great wealth as more land opened for settlement.
b. rarely returned to work for their masters.
c. almost always found high-paying jobs in the cities.
d. had little choice but to hire themselves out for low wages to their former masters.
e. often returned to England penniless and broke.
Question 2
The area in dispute between the United States and Great Britain in 1845 lay between the
a. forty-second parallel and the Columbia River.
b. Cascade Mountains, the Columbia River, and Puget Sound.
c. 36 30' line and the Columbia River.
d. forty-ninth parallel and the 54 40' line.
e. Columbia River, the forty-ninth parallel, and the Pacific Ocean.
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