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What Was a Difference Between the Rights in Marriage of Women

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What was a difference between the rights in marriage of women in the Chesapeake region and those of women in New England in the 1600s?


A) Women in the Chesapeake region tended to have more power because they were fewer in number and thus began from a better bargaining position.
B) Women in New England had more rights because there were more women there and they had greater strength as a community.
C) Women in New England had fewer rights because the colonists there came from more strict and traditional backgrounds.
D) Women in the Chesapeake region tended to have fewer rights because the planter class had more restrictions on the roles of women in society.
E) Women in New England had fewer rights because the women there tended to live much shorter lives than those in the Chesapeake region.

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