By the 1720s, the development of a middling social class in the American colonies, reflected all of the following developments EXCEPT
A) social movement in an upward direction.
B) people beginning to question that deference should be automatically shown to people in higher status in colonial society.
C) the disappearance of the assumption that one stayed in the class to which one was born.
D) the fluid ability of indentured servants, extremely poor people, and even slaves to move upward in social class.
Answer: D
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