By the eighteenth century, colonial farm families:
a. viewed land ownership almost as a right, a precondition of freedom.
b. were in decline as bigger cities like Philadelphia expanded.
c. engaged in arranged intermarriages.
d. saw freedom as depending on their political rights, not their ownership of property.
e. almost always owned at least three slaves.
Ans: a. viewed land ownership almost as a right, a precondition of freedom.
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