Why did European colonists need a new labor force in the Americas in the 1500s?Select the best answer.

European colonists sought a new labor force because disease brought from Europe and forced labor caused a devastating decline in the Indigenous population. As a result, colonists increasingly turned to enslaved Africans to provide labor. Choice B, “Disease and slavery destroyed most of the Indigenous population,” gives the reason most directly.

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