Question

English settlers in seventeenth-century America could best be characterized in terms of their ________.

Answer 1

Your question is incomplete because you have not provided the answer choices. These are:

A) striking social diversity.

B) similarity to French and Spanish migrants of the same period.

C) unity of purpose and motivation.

D) desire to help each other.

E) homogeneity.

Answer:

A) striking social diversity.

Explanation:

During the seventeenth century, the English settlements in the Americas included a diverse group of immigrants. Thus, many of them running away form poverty arrived in Virginia and Maryland to work on tobacco plantations or to find gold. On the other hand, Puritans who were following their ministers settled in the colonies of New England, where they were mainly devoted to church.