Which of these statements best summarizes the status of common farmers during different eras of history?
A. Common farmers were mostly enslaved laborers who worked on property owned by wealthy landowners.
B. Common farmers did the hardest agricultural work but received little of the economic profits.
C. Common farmers generally became wealthy as they developed and controlled new methods of agriculture.
D. Common farmers increased their personal ownership of land as new advances in agriculture took place.
B. Common farmers did the hardest agricultural work but received little of the economic profits.
How did the Counter-Reformation in Europe most impact the settlement of European colonies in the Americas?
A. The Catholic Church created special settlements in the Americas for non-Catholics who were being persecuted by various European monarchs.
B. Catholic persecutions of Protestants in England led to the Great Puritan Migration to New England during the 1600s.
C. Catholic persecutions of Protestants and Jews resulted in the voluntary and forced migrations of various religious groups to the Americas.
D. Catholic monarchs in France and Spain financed special voyages to the Americas to give non-Catholic Protestants and Jews opportunities to freely practice their religions without persecution.