Natural Increase Created What Unique Situation in Chesapeake Slave Demographics

question 66

Multiple Choice

Natural increase created what unique situation in Chesapeake slave demographics by the 1730s?

• A) The Chesapeake slave population became the first in the Western Hemisphere to achieve self-sustained growth.
• B) The combinations of cultural traditions in the Chesapeake were not seen elsewhere.
• C) Only in the Chesapeake did different language traditions combine to create new languages that were only partly related to English.
• D) The Chesapeake became the first region in the Americas with an African-descended majority.

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