In New York During the First Half of the Eighteenth

Multiple Choice

In New York during the first half of the eighteenth century,settlement of the Hudson River Valley showed which of the following patterns?

A) The Dutch manorial system largely remained intact,with a few wealthy and powerful Dutch and English landlords dominating poor tenant families.
B) German and Scots-Irish immigrants,attracted by generous terms offered by Dutch families who did not want the land to be settled exclusively by migrating New Englanders,poured in.
C) Continuing troubles with the French and Indians to the north kept the valley sparsely populated until the eve of the American Revolution.
D) Migrants from overcrowded New England bid up the price of land so high that immigrant Germans and Scots-Irish could not afford to settle there.