Question

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between colonization and slavery in the centuries following the 1500s?
A. When colonial powers lost some of their people because of migration to the colonies, they imported slaves to make up for the population loss.
B. As colonies grew, colonial powers increasingly relied on slaves for hard labor.
C. After colonial powers won colonies through battle, they integrated the conquered people into society as slaves.
D. Because colonies needed local leadership, colonial powers trained and educated slaves to assume government positions.

Answer 1

As colonies grew colonial powers increasingly relied on slaves for hard labore

Answer 2

Answer:

B. As colonies grew, colonial powers increasingly relied on slaves for hard labor.

Explanation:

During the centuries following the 16th century, colonial powers like England, Spain, Portugal, and France, conquered large territories in the Americas, which gave them the chance to cultivate crops such as tobacco, coffee, wheat, among many others. In order to increase the production, colonial powers needed workforce for hard labor. Therefore, European colonial powers created an international slavery network, buying slaves from Western Africa and selling them in the colonies of the Americas. For the following centuries, the economy of the European colonial powers relied, to a large extent, on the workforce of African slaves.