The correct answer for this question is this one: "D) A planter in the Virginia Colony trades tobacco to a South Carolina plantation owner for cotton."
<span>According to the passage, it would have been ILLEGAL in the late 1600s if </span><em>A planter in the Virginia Colony trades tobacco to a South Carolina plantation owner for cotton.
</em>Hope this helps answer your question and have a nice day ahead.
I would say treason because the 13 colonies were still colonies of Great Britain who had authority over the colonies and it was not in their interests to have the colonies become independent at all from Britain,.