In the beginning, slaves were brought to british north america for question 5 options: gold and silver mining tobacco farming war with the french. manufacturing work

The correct answer is - tobacco farming.

When the British colonies in the territory of what is now the United States of America where set, they wanted them to develop and be profitable. They started doing this with the production of tobacco. But a problem arose, because there was not enough laborers for the big plantations, as most of the Native Americans died because of diseases that the Europeans spread. So the British decided to purchase slaves, and they did that on the coast of Western Africa, where they were buying slaves from the local stronger tribes, and after that were making the slaves work on their tobacco plantations.

in 1897, pershing became a tactical officer at west point, and that's where he was given the nickname "black jack." pershing's first name is "john," for which "jack" is a nickname, and he was a white man who commanded black troops. hence "black jack".