Although Bailyn goes on to apply his approach to some thousands of indentured servants who migrated just prior to the revolution, he fails to link their experi- ence with the political development of the United States. Evidence presented in his work suggests how we might make such a connection. These indentured servants were treated as slaves for the period during which they had sold their time to American employers. It is not surprising that as soon as they served their time they passed up good wages in the cities and headed west to ensure their personal independence by acquiring land. Thus, it is in the west that a peculiarly American political culture began, among colonists who were suspicious of authority and intensely antiaristocratic.
1. Which of the following statements about migrants to colonial North America is supported by information in the passage?
A larger percentage of migrants to colonial North America came as indentured servants than as free agents interested in acquiring land.
Migrants who came to the colonies as indentured servants were more successful at making a livelihood than were farmers and artisans.
Migrants to colonial North America were more successful at acquiring their own land during the eighteenth century than during the seven-tenth century.
By the 1730s, migrants already skilled in a trade were in more demand by American employers than were unskilled laborers.
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