Author Question: All of the following are reasons for increased reliance on slave labor, after 1680, in colonial ... (Read 79 times)

OSWALD · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

All of the following are reasons for increased reliance on slave labor, after 1680, in colonial America except

a. higher wages in England reduced the number of emigrating servants.
b. planters feared the growing number of landless freemen in the colonies.
c. the British Royal African company lost its monopoly on the slave trade in colonial America.
d. Americans rushed to cash in on the slave trade.
e. the development of wheat as a staple crop in the British colonies.

Question 2

In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846, the northern boundary of the United States was established to the Pacific Ocean along the line of

a. 42.
b. 52 40'.
c. 54 40'.
d. 36 30'.
e. 49.