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Why did the European colonists need a new labor force in America's in 15,000
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Why did the European colonists need a new labor force in America's in 15,000

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Everywhere in the Americas, a crushing demand for labor bedeviled Europeans because there were not enough colonists to perform the work necessary to keep the colonies going. Spain granted encomiendas—legal rights to native labor—to conquistadors who could prove their service to the crown.

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Why did the colonies need labor? All this labor was tied to international trade. Most colonists headed to North America in the hopes of exploiting economic opportunity; slaves and indentured servants left, or were forced from, their homes in service of economic development.

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