Columbian Exchange and Ecological Change · US History

How did the Columbian Exchange affect the Atlantic slave trade?

  1. It decreased the need for slaves as new machines were invented
  2. Millions of Native deaths created a labor vacuum Europeans filled with enslaved Africans
  3. It ended the slave trade because Europeans preferred to hire Native Americans
  4. It had no relationship to the labor systems of the Americas
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Correct answer: Millions of Native deaths created a labor vacuum Europeans filled with enslaved Africans

As Old World diseases decimated the indigenous workforce, European colonists turned to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to provide the massive amounts of labor required for sugar and tobacco plantations.

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