SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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New England
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Middle
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Southern
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Slavery in the South At that date, 293, 000 slaves lived in Virginia alone, making up 42 percent of all slaves in the U.S. at the time. South Carolina, North Carolina, and Maryland each had over 100, 000 slaves.
Detailed explanation-2: -Puritan New England, Virginia, Spanish Florida, and the Carolina colonies engaged in large-scale enslavement of Native Americans, often through the use of Indian proxies to wage war and acquire the slaves.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many slaves lived on large farms called plantations. These plantations produced important crops traded by the colony, crops such as cotton and tobacco. Each plantation was like a small village owned by one family. That family lived in a large house, usually facing a river.
Detailed explanation-4: -The South relied on slavery heavily for economic prosperity and used wealth as a way to justify enslavement practices.