SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Trade centers
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Plantations
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Settlements
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industrial centers
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Detailed explanation-1: -The flat land was good for farming and so the landowners built very large farms called plantations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Main Idea Southern plantations were large and needed many workers, but most southern colonists lived on small family farms. The huge plantations in the South were more like small villages than farms. At the center of a plantation, often near a river or stream, was the planter’s house.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although planters were only a small part of the Southern population, the plantation economy and slavery shaped life in the Southern Colonies: Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Upper South: Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and the Deep South, including South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, are where most large southern plantations were located.
Detailed explanation-5: -What was a main reason large plantations developed in the South during the colonial period? The coastal plain in the South contained large areas of fertile soil.