The Virginia Company's establishment of the headright system in 1618
A) gave every former indentured servant fifty acres of land, which created the basis for a more socially equal society than that of Massachusetts.
B) gave fifty acres of land to any colonist who paid for his own or another's passage, which in effect awarded large estates to anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants.
C) gave widows the entirety of their husbands' properties in perpetuity, which undermined the patriarchal social order.
D) forbade the development of large plantations, which hindered the spread of tobacco farming.
E) abolished indentured servitude and slavery and dispersed all plantation owners' lands to former servants and slaves.
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