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Para 1- America- the land of hope for multitudes in Europe
Para 2- opportunities for advancement written in pamphlets
Para 3- cheap land + dearness of labor in the colonies
Para 4- prosperous middle class in Virginia
1. The author mentions the accounts of Welby and Fearson in the passage in order to:
(A) provide further evidence for the conclusion that there were plenty of opportunities for advancement available to laborers in America - Correct; the accounts of the W&M mention good things about America
When the traveller Welby came to America he was surprised to “see no misery, no disgusting army of paupers, not even beggars;” while Henry B. Fearson noted that laborers were “more erect in their posture, less careworn in their countenances” than those of Europe.
2. According to the passage, which of the following is a reason that provided migrants the opportunity to rise in American colonies?
(D) Labor was in short supply in these colonies.
In Virginia, as in other colonies, it was the cheapness of land and the dearness of labor which gave the newcomer his chance to rise.
Thus, the so-called servants who had completed their terms and men who had come over as freemen found it easy to earn enough to buy small plantations of their own.
3. According to the passage, which of the following is an incorrect statement about Virginia in the eighteenth century?
(A) In Virginia, land was cheap but labour was expensive. - incorrect
(B) Virginia was a land of opportunities for migrant workers from Europe. - incorrect
(C) The landscape of Virginia primarily comprised several large estates interspersed with a few smaller ones. - Correct;
One has only to glance at the Rent Roll to see that the large plantations were vastly outnumbered by the small farms of the yeomen. It proves that Virginia at the beginning of the eighteenth century was not the land of huge estates, worked by servants and slaves, but of a numerous, prosperous middle class.
(D) The Rent Roll makes a mention of plantations in Virginia in at least one place. - incorrect
(E) The middle class was prospering in Virginia. - incorrect
4. Which of the following assertions is best supported by the above passage?
(A) Hiring indentured workers in the US colonies was cheaper than hiring migrant workers. - incorrect; we do not know which of these workers were cheaper
(B) Rich landlords in American colonies had the option of hiring indentured workers. - Correct;
Indentured workers met his needs in part, but they were expensive, hard to acquire, and served for only four years.
(C) European laborers had a deformity in their posture. - incorrect;
Henry B. Fearson noted that laborers were “more erect in their posture, less careworn in their countenances” than those of Europe. --> We can't infer that European laborers had a deformity in their posture
(D) Indentured workers were not allowed to buy land in American colonies. - incorrect; Thus, the so-called servants who had completed their terms and men who had come over as freemen found it easy to earn enough to buy small plantations of their own.
(E) The plight of migrant workers in Virginia was different from their plight in other American colonies.- incorrect
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