The trend shown most directly contributed to which development in the Chesapeake region?
- Acheck_circle
Expansion of plantation slavery to meet labor demands
- B
Replacement of tobacco with cotton as the leading crop
- C
The end of indentured servitude as the dominant labor system
- D
A shift to subsistence farming and decline of cash crops
Explanation
Rising tobacco output required more labor; planters increasingly turned from indentured servants to enslaved Africans, expanding chattel slavery in Virginia and Maryland.