Question

Which of the following statements is the least accurate?

In contrast to the gang labor system employed on tobacco plantations in the Chesapeake, slaves producing rice in the South Carolina operated on the task system, which afforded Lowcountry slaves significantly less autonomy/freedom that their Virginia counterparts.

A higher percentage of men in the New World could vote as compared to the Old World.

Taverns and public houses (i.e., bars) were popular venues for the public discussion of politics in eighteenth-century English North America.

While there were many more slaves in the southern colonies, slavery existed in the North and played an important role in northern colonies’ economies.

Answer 1

Option D While there were many more slaves in the southern colonies, slavery existed in the North and played an important role in northern colonies’ economies.This statement is not accurate.

While slavery was allowed in the North, it was less integral to the North’s economy than to the South’s, and slave populations were generally much smaller in the North.
Even though slavery was not prevalent in the North, northern commercial and industrial centers (particularly textiles industries) had a vested interest in the survival of slavery in the South.