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Why did the Spanish begin using enslaved Africans instead of enslaved American Indians to work on plantations?

Plantation owners could trade goods for Africans but not American Indians.

European diseases had killed much of the American Indian population.

There was too much resistance among American Indians.

American Indians fled to the north and became fur traders for the French.

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B European diseases had killed much of the American Indian population.

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It is the only true statement.

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Definitely B., European diseases had killed much of the American Indian population--over 90% to be exact.
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