What forms of labor did the British initially use in North America? Why did they begin to turn to African sources?
What will be an ideal response?
Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Explain the lack of use of Indian slavery by white colonials because of resistance, disease, and high death rates for native people.
2. Explain the development of white indentured servitude as the most common form of coercive labor in the early American colonies.
3. Explain the creation of new laws by Virginia whites that slowly enslaved blacks for life, closed religious loopholes, defined a child's status as the same as the mother's status, and made slavery a lifelong institution for the individual.
4. Comment on other factors that produced black slavery, such as European cultural attitudes against African people, and the presence of slavery in the Caribbean.
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a. Rutherford B. Hayes became president b. southerners agreed to a new tariff c. Confederate generals were pardoned d. James Garfield became president
Lands formerly occupied by ancient pueblo peoples in Arizona and New Mexico are today home to
a. Apaches and Zunis. b. Anasazis. c. Arawaks and Zunis. d. Zunis and Hopis. e. Sioux and Hopis.
Seaborne European empires in Asia were originally geared toward
a. territorial control. b. commercial profit. c. exploration. d. scientific research. e. expansion of Christianity.
Which of the following contributed to the great industrial advances of the mid-nineteenth century?
A. the manufacturing of machine tools. B. American inventors. C. the factory system. D. financing by affluent Northeast merchants. E. All of these answers are correct.