Forbidding European powers from colonizing additional territories in the americas.
These laws made it legal to keep enslaved people for their entire lives.
Answer:
it's because women were the ones who took care of the kids, and while they were nursing their children, raising them, etc men hunted and did "manly things". this started a patriarchal precedent.
True, rats were said to come off of fleeing boats and the plague continued to spread
