Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 49

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-Colonized in the 1630s, this island in the British West Indies became an enormous sugar producer and a source of wealth for England. The island's African slaves quickly became a majority of the island's population despite the deadliness of their work.

• A)Algonquian Indians
• B)Bacon's Rebellion
• C)Barbados
• D)headright
• E)House of Burgesses
• F)indentured servants
• G)Jamestown
• H)Navigation Acts
• I)Pueblo Revolt
• J)royal colony
• K)slavery
• L)Virginia Company

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