It’s both true and false but for school true
The correct answer is - they were forced to come as enslaved people.
This was the time when slavery in America took place - Americans would go to Africa, take the slaves against their will, and transport them to America where they would have to work for free and do extremely difficult jobs just because of their skin color.
That meant that the South would have been starved of supplies and would have been forced to surrender.
Simon Bolìvar was the president of Bolivia.