SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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When Native Americans died of overwork and disease on colony plantations, Africans would replace them
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The Portuguese traded goods with West African Kingdoms in exchange for slaves to work on sugar plantations
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Slave labor was already used on Spanish haciendas and in the encomienda system
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the context of the European colonization of North America, mercantilism refers to the idea that colonies existed for the benefit of the Mother Country. In other words, the British saw the American colonists as tenants who ‘paid rent’ by providing materials for Britain to use.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mercantilism led to the emergence of what’s been called the “triangular trade”: a system of exchange in which Europe supplied Africa and the Americas with finished goods, the Americas supplied Europe and Africa with raw materials, and Africa supplied the Americas with enslaved laborers.
Detailed explanation-3: -What were the effects of mercantilism? Mercantilism led to the creation of monopolistic trading companies, such as the East India Company and the French East India Company. Restrictions on where finished goods could be purchased led in many cases to burdensome high prices for those goods.
Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout the 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to enslaved Africans as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants, who were mostly poor Europeans.