Multiple Choice
During the period between 1676 and 1750,how did the Virginia gentry try to reduce social discontent?
A) The gentry urged even the smallest landholders to purchase slaves and thus support the slavery system.
B) They raised the annual poll tax from five to forty-five pounds of tobacco a year.
C) They disenfranchised poorer whites by increasing the amount of land a man had to own in order to vote.
D) Virginia gentry enacted legislation that favored medium-scale farmers at the expense of both the richest and the poorest farmers.
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