Author Question: Why, beginning in the mid-1660s, did Chesapeake planters begin to purchase more African slaves? ... (Read 68 times)

SO00 · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

The church attacked Galileo because

a. he offered a view of the universe that conflicted with certain scriptural texts.
b. he was a Copernican.
c. he abandoned the scholastics' view of the relationship between matter and form.
d. he advanced a corpuscular theory of matter.
e. all of the above

Question 2

Why, beginning in the mid-1660s, did Chesapeake planters begin to purchase more African slaves?

a. They could no longer obtain an adequate supply of white indentured servants.
b. The price of slaves dropped as more and more were imported from Africa.
c. It became clear that Native Americans could not be used successfully as slaves.
d. It became necessary for white indentured servants to serve in the militia to defend against Indian attacks.