In the chesapeake region, slavery: a. rapidly became the dominant labor system after 1680. b. was geographically restricted to the tidewater area until transportation improved in the nineteenth century. c. allowed planters to make vast profits from cotton and rice as well as from tobacco. d. was so widely practiced that nearly three-fifths of white households in 1770 included a slaveowner. e. was the labor system preferred by planters as early as the 1620s.

e. was the labor system preferred by planters as early as the 1620s.

Explanation:

The first Dutch ship with slaves arrived in Jamestown in 1619. In the Chesapeake colonies Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, slaves were the predominant workforce.  Most tobacco cultivated , harvested and processed in those colonies in the 16th century was the work of slaves.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts