USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Explanation: Tobacco, rice, and indigo were the southern colonies’ most important cash crops.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.