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ing which they had sold their time to american employers. it is not surprising that as soon as they served their time they passed up (pass up: 放棄。錯過) 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.(a) a larger percentage of migrants to colonial north america came as indentured servants than as free agents interested in acquiring land.(b) migrants who came to the colonies as indentured servants were more successful at making a livelihood than were farmers and artisans.(c) migrants to colonial north america were more successful at acquiring their own land during the eighteenth century than during the sevententh century.(d) by the 1730’s, migrants already skilled in a trade were in more demand by american employers than were unskilled laborers.(d)(e) a significant percentage of migrants who came to the colonies to acquire land were forced to work as field hands for prosperous american farmers.(a) give sufficient emphasis to the cultural and political interdependence of the colonies and england(b) describe carefully how migrants of different ethnic backgrounds preserved their culture in the united states(c) take advantage of social research on the experiences of colonists who migrated to colonial north america specifically to acquire land(d) relate the experience of the migrants to the political valu