Seventeenth-century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by
a. selling slaves to reduce productive labor.
b. selling land to reduce their volume of production.
c. growing more tobacco to increase their volume of production.
d. planting corn and wheat instead of tobacco.
e. releasing unneeded indentured servants early.
Question 2
Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) annexation of Texas, (B) Webster-Ashburton Treaty, (C) settlement of the Oregon boundary, and (D) Aroostook War.
a. A, B, D, C
b. B, D, C, A
c. D, B, A, C
d. C, A, B, D
e. A, D, C, B
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