The correct answers are D) transportation and E) communication.
The ease with which the colonists could improve their social status depended upon transportation and communication.
No titles or nobility really existed in the colonies in America. There were equal opportunities for everybody with the exception of slaves. Most people worked in their farms, lived modestly but there were no poverty or inequity. There were skilled artisans, merchants, farmers, and few unskilled workers. So to improve their social status, people depended upon transportation and communication. It was very important for them to be communicated.
