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True or false: Life in the American wilderness was difficult for the earliest Chesapeake settlers?
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True or false: Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid were common diseases that affected the settlers?
True
True or false: The life expectancy of newcomers from England was shorter than the average?
True
True or false: Half of the people born in early Virginia and Maryland did not live past their twentieth birthdays?
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True or false: The majority of immigrants to the Chesapeake were single men in their late teens and early twenties?
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True or false: The number of men in the Chesapeake colonies was significantly higher than the number of women in the 17th century?
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True or false: Most marriages in the Chesapeake colonies ended due to the death of a partner within seven years?
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True or false: Very few children in the Chesapeake colonies grew up with both parents present?
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True or false: Unmarried young girls in the Chesapeake colonies often became pregnant?
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True or false: The native-born inhabitants of the Chesapeake colonies developed resistances to the diseases that affected the original immigrants?
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