Why was it unprofitable for Europeans to establish large colonies in Africa during the 1400's and 1500's: A) Travel to and from
Africa was to expensive B) Africa labors demanded too much pay C) African peoples put up too much resistance D)Africa did not contain enough resources.
AS African peoples put up too much resistance, By 1444, the Portuguese conveyed enslaved individuals from Africa to take a shot at the sugar plantations of the Madeira Islands, off the shore of present day Morocco.
The slave exchange at that point extended over the Atlantic as European settlements requested a consistently expanding number of workers for the broad estates developing the work concentrated harvests of tobacco, sugar, and in the end rice and cotton.
President John Adams created the United States Department of the Navy "<span>D)to expand the United States' control over territorial waters". The US needed ships to protect US shipping overseas and to protect its coastline. </span>