Author Question: Which of the following facts characterized life in the Chesapeake region in the early seventeenth ... (Read 97 times)

corkyiscool3328 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Which of the following facts characterized life in the Chesapeake region in the early seventeenth century?

A) Widows enjoyed greater economic power in the Chesapeake than women did in other regions.
B) There were more men in the Chesapeake than women.
C) Male and female life expectancy in the 1600s Chesapeake was twenty years lower than in New England.
D) Chesapeake colonists began to live longer as they developed immunities to disease.
E) All of these choices

Question 2

Why was the Act for Religious Toleration of 1649 significant?

A) It protected Puritans in Massachusetts from religious persecution and was America's first law affirming freedom of worship.
B) It allowed Native Americans to perform their own religious rites in praying towns.
C) It embodied the fundamental anti-authoritarian tenets of the Antinomians.
D) It protected Catholics in Maryland from religious persecution.
E) It promoted social stability in the British West Indies.