How did headrights encourage settlement in the Virginia colony?
A) They permitted the head of a family the right to vote in the House of Burgesses.
B) They allowed immigrants to purchase land at steep discounts.
C) They granted the head of non-English immigrant families English citizenship.
D) They provided fifty acres of land to every settler who paid his own way.
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