Why Did the New Colonists of Georgia Demand Slaves

question 50

Multiple Choice

Why did the new colonists of Georgia demand slaves?

• A) Farmers were given so many acres of land that they felt they could not farm efficiently without slaves.
• B) The main crop of Georgia-tobacco-could be cultivated only with slave labor.
• C) The colonists felt that since they had no voice in government, they needed a class of people even lower on the social rung than they were.
• D) The English settlers in Georgia were used to having slaves and demanded that they could not get along without them.
• E) The colonists believed that they could compete economically with South Carolina only if they were allowed to have slaves.

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