All of the following is true of indentured laborers EXCEPT:
a. English planters in Barbados imported English and Irish indentured laborers for tobacco, cotton, indigo, and ginger production.
b. After English and Irish workers became unwilling to migrate as indentured laborers, law courts sentenced those accused of crimes to “transportation” to serve as indentured labor.
c. Many poor English and Irish people were tricked or kidnapped into being “transported” for that purpose.
d. Indenture was abandoned because African slaves quickly proved a better source of labor.
d. Indenture was abandoned because African slaves quickly proved a better source of labor.
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a. to pay off war debts. b. to teach the colonists a lesson. c. to increase the standard of living in Britain. d. to finance westward expansion.
Unlike in industrial work patterns, preindustrial workers were expected to be
A) relaxed and informal. B) thrifty and sober. C) disciplined and punctual. D) regular and orderly.
The Aztecs rose to power through __________
A) careful resource management B) mastery of irrigation C) domination of long-distance trade D) strategic alliances and military skill
Whose work established utopian fiction as a new genre?
A) Desiderius Erasmus B) Thomas More C) Albrecht Dürer D) Johannes Gutenberg