In Puritan New England:
a) most women gave birth at least ten times.
b) women married at an older age than their English counterparts.
c) it was illegal for a woman to have children after the age of twenty-eight, so child-bearing began earlier than it did elsewhere.
d) infant death rates were lower than in the Chesapeake colonies, because the environment was healthier.
Answer: d) infant death rates were lower than in the Chesapeake colonies, because the environment was healthier.
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