SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Question
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A large farm, usually with 50 or more slaves and producing many cash crops.
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Plantation
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Tidewater
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Backcountry
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Gone with the Wind
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Unlike small, subsistence farms, plantations were created to grow cash crops for sale on the market.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Southern Colonies had an agricultural economy. Most colonists lived on small family farms, but some owned large plantations that produced cash crops such as tobacco and rice.
Detailed explanation-3: -The flat land was good for farming and so the landowners built very large farms called plantations.
Detailed explanation-4: -Brookgreen Plantation Georgetown County, S.C. America’s largest slaveholder. In 1850 he held 1, 092 slaves; Ward was the largest slaveholder in the United States before his death in 1853.
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