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"The New England settlers more closely resembled the non-migrating English population than they did other English colorists in the New World. While the composition of the emigrant
populations in the Chesapeake and the Caribbean hindered the successful transfer of familiar patterns of social relationships, the character of the New England colonial population ensured it The
prospect of colonizing distant tanda stirred the imaginations of young people all over England but most of these young adults made their way to the tobacco and sugar plantations of the South
Nearly half of a sample of Virginia residents in 1625 were between the ages of twenty and twentynine, and groups of emigrants to the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century consistently included
a majority of people in their twenties. In contrast, only a quarter of the New England settlere belonged to this age group
"Similarly, the sex ratio of the New England emigrant group resembled that of England's population. It women were soare in the Chesapeake they were comparatively abundant in the
northern colonies. In the second decade of Virginia's settlement, there were four or five men for each woman by the end of the century, there were still about three men for every two women. Among
the emigrants in New England), however, nearly hall were women and girls. Such a high proportion of females in the population assured the young men of New England greater success than their
southern counterparts in finding spouses."
Virginia DeJohn Anderson historian, "Migrants and Motives Religion and the Settlement of New England, 1630-1640,"published in 1985
Which of the following best describes an overall argument of the excerpt?
A
The makeup of emigrant populations led to greater reconstruction of English family life in New England than it did in the Chesapeake.
(D
British colonial settlers were disproportionately young and male compared to the overall population of England.
Tobacco and sugar plantations in the southern colonies attracted the most settlers in British North America,
D
By the end of the seventeenth century, the population makeup of the British colonies resembled the population makeup of England.