What Made the Southern Colonies Unique Compared to Other New

question 11

Multiple Choice

What made the southern colonies unique compared to other New World slave societies?

• A) Southern slaves had a high rate of natural increase.
• B) Southern colonists freed many slave children.
• C) Deaths in the southern colonies exceeded births.
• D) Southern colonists allowed their slaves to vote.

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Definitions:

Marginal Cost

The additional cost incurred by producing one more unit of a product or service, a key concept used in decision-making and pricing strategies.

Public Good

A good that is non-excludable and non-rivalrous, meaning individuals cannot be effectively excluded from its use and one person's use does not reduce availability to others.

Grocery Store

A retail store that sells food and other household goods.

Marginal Social Benefit

The additional benefit to society as a whole from one more unit of a good or service being consumed.