Question

11. During the seventeenth century, indentured servants:
a. made up less than one-third of English settlers in America.
b. had to surrender their freedom for a minimum of ten years to come to the colonies.
c. had a great deal of trouble acquiring land.
d. had to pay half of the fare to get them to the New World,
e. were almost entirely Irish.

Answer 1

Answer:

D

Explanation:

Indentured servants were individuals who bargained away their labor for a period of four to seven years in exchange for passage to the New World. In the 17th century, indentured servants made up the mass of English immigrants to the Chesapeake colonies and were central to the development of the tobacco economy.