SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Most of the independent republics in Latin America had abolished slav-ery by the mid-nineteenth century. By 1870, slavery was legal only in Brazil and in the colo-nial territories of Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Detailed explanation-2: -Directly or indirectly, the economies of all 13 British colonies in North America depended on slavery. By the 1620s, the labor-intensive cultivation of tobacco for European markets was established in Virginia, with white indentured servants performing most of the heavy labor.
Detailed explanation-3: -Enslaved people were regarded and treated as property with little to no rights. In many colonies, enslaved people could not testify in a court of law, own guns, gather in large groups, or go out at night.