Author Question: By the end of the 1600s, blacks in Virginia constituted 14 percent of the colony's population and ... (Read 66 times)

student77 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

By the end of the 1600s, blacks in Virginia constituted 14 percent of the colony's population and were mostly

a. free men and women
b. indentured servants
c. slaves
d. English citizens
e. voluntary immigrants from Africa

Question 2

As a result of the development of the cotton gin

a. slavery revived and expanded.
b. American industry bought more southern cotton than did British manufacturers.
c. slavery declined in the importance of the development of the South's economy.
d. the South diversified its economy.
e. the textile industry moved to the South.