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Why did slavery take the place of indentured servitude?

Southern plantation owners wanted a less-costly labor source.

Fewer people were seeking passage to the Americas.

Slavery led to more predictable fates for the enslaved.

Colonists wanted to make sure indentured servants were not considered property.

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One reason southern plantation owners wanted to stop using indentured servants is because

there were too many indentured servants in the Americas.

plantation owners thought freed servants posed a threat.

colonists in New England wanted to ban the practice.

there were laws put in place that freed indentured servants.

New farmers in the early New England colonies faced which of the following challenges?

English laws restricted which crops they could plant.

Unfamiliar weather and soil conditions affected cultivation.

European plants grew like weeds in the American soil.

English investors promoted manufacturing over farming.

After the Roanoke incident, plans to launch another colony in Virginia started in 1606 with

King James I issuing the Virginia Charter.

Sir Walter Raleigh again putting up his own money.

John White offering to lead the colony.

King James I offering to pay for the colony.

An important religious leader during the First Great Awakening was

William Penn.

Peter Zenger.

Anne Hutchinson.

Jonathan Edwards.

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