Question

During the colonial period, European demand for tobacco and rice, combined with the trade in African slaves, contributed to the development of — rapidly growing cities in the Midwest. an industrial economy in the North. plantation or agricultural based economy in the South. an economy dominated by small farmers in the West.

Answer 1

an industrial economy in the North.

Step-by-step explanation:

The transatlantic slave trade was one that remarkably transformed the Americas. There was the availability of cheap lands gotten from Native American people, Europeans looking for where to invest their wealth and the availability of Enslaved Africans who could serve as cheap labour sources.

King Ferdinand of Spain sent over two hundred Africans to his colonies in America to work as slaves and this norm became a source of continual supply of cheap labor for the growing economies. This expansion was seen to have led to the development of a new industrial economy in the North.