CLEP US History I

Answer: B - In many colonies, unmarried women could maintain property, so women who never married could maintain their wealth and status. Women ceded control of property to their husbands after marriage and had very little power over their lives as daughters. Widows were entitled to one third of their husband's property, and his share would go to their children, even if the widow remarried. Women in the colonies had far more rights than their English counterparts and greater opportunity for social advancement.