World History Semester B Exam

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Question
Early colonial plantations in the Canary Islands and Americas used slave labor to grow(1 point)
Responses

tobacco.
tobacco.

tea.
tea.

sugar.
sugar.

black pepper.

1 answer

The correct response is sugar. Early colonial plantations in the Canary Islands and the Americas predominantly used slave labor to grow sugar, which became a highly profitable cash crop.