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“Whereas some doubts have arisen whether children got by any Englishman upon a Negro woman should be slave or free, be it therefore enacted and declared by this present Grand Assembly, that all children born in this country shall be held bond or free only according to the condition of the mother...”
— Act of the Virginia General Assembly, 1662

Which of the following historical developments in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake region was a primary cause for the passage of the law excerpted above?

  1. The development of a permanent, hereditary labor force to support tobacco cultivationCevap
  2. B
    The growth of family-based, small-scale farming communities motivated by religious ideology
  3. C
    The need to standardize the contractual terms and redemption rules for European indentured servants
  4. D
    The strict enforcement of imperial Navigation Acts aimed at securing a monopoly on shipping

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The development of a permanent, hereditary labor force to support tobacco cultivation
The correct answer is correct because the 1662 Virginia law legally established hereditary chattel slavery. This shift was motivated by the economic demands of tobacco planters who required a permanent, expanding labor source to cultivate labor-intensive cash crops as the supply of European indentured servants began to decline.

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1
Analyze the source text to identify the core legal change.
The 1662 Virginia law declares that a child's legal status (enslaved or free) follows the status of the mother, establishing hereditary bondage.
This shows the colonial government codifying slavery into a generational, inherited institution.
2
Link the legal change to the economic and labor needs of the Chesapeake region during the mid-to-late seventeenth century.
Planters required a stable, permanent agricultural workforce to grow cash crops like tobacco, particularly as the supply of white indentured servants began to decline.
Economic incentives drove the transition from temporary contract labor to perpetual enslaved labor.
3
Select the option that matches this causal historical development.
The option describing the development of a permanent, hereditary labor force to support tobacco cultivation is identified as the correct cause.
This directly matches the historical transition from indentured servitude to chattel slavery in the Chesapeake.

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Development of Chattel Slavery and Cash Crop Agriculture
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Chesapeake and Southern Colonies

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