USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on.

Detailed explanation-2: -A slave plantation was an agricultural farm that used enslaved people for labour. The practice was abolished in most places during the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -The settlements required a large number of laborers to sustain them. Because these crops required large areas of land, the plantations grew in size, and in turn, more labor was required to work on the plantations. Plantation labor shifted away from indentured servitude and more toward slavery by the late 1600s.

Detailed explanation-4: -Arecanut (betel nut), cardamom, cashew, cocoa, coconut, coffee, oil palm, rubber, and tea are the major crops grown on a plantation scale. Most of these plantation crops are cultivated as monocultures, exceptions being coconut, arecanut, cocoa, and coffee, which are grown either as a mono crop or as a multiple crop.

Detailed explanation-5: -Slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America’s southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation.