What group made up one-eighth of the american population?

southern citizens
northern citizens
slaves
american indians

The correct answer for this question is C.

Slaves formed one- eighth part of the American population. A very small number was taken to the Americas from Africa ( not directly via Spain Portugal and the Atlantic sea). The slave population in North America however, increased naturally, which resulted in an adequate supply of the Slave to the slaveholders from plantations itself and not from the ships. As the sugar plantation increased in Brazil, it demanded more slaves than before. A large number of slaves primarily lived in the south.

disease was the number one killer of native peoples. they had had little exposure to the diseases of europe. this led to some villages being almost completely wiped out and some tribes destroyed.

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