Large Landholders Sometimes Responded to the Shortage of Agricultural Workers

Multiple Choice

Large landholders sometimes responded to the shortage of agricultural workers as a result of the Black Death by:

A) forcing tenants to do more unpaid labor, imposing new taxes, and requiring new forms of servitude.
B) paying their laborers less.
C) consolidating their holdings and selling off land they did not have the manpower to cultivate.
D) investing money in new technologies and laborsaving devices.
E) buying slaves from West Africa to work on their lands.