During the seventeenth century, English colonists in the Chesapeake saw
A. few single adults.
B. women significantly outnumber men.
C. an increasingly unbalanced sex ratio.
D. eight out of ten children dying in infancy.
E. a life expectancy for men of just over forty years.
Answer: E
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