USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Planter Class And because they had more slaves, they could grow more tobacco, rice, or indigo to sell. Small landowners with just one or two slaves simply could not compete. Many gave up their land and moved westward. As a result, the powerful planter class gained control of the rich land along the coast.

Detailed explanation-2: -The great planters, as families that owned more than 100 people were known, dominated southern society and politics, even though they were few in number. Only about 2, 000 families across the entire South belonged to that class. The vast majority of slaveholders owned fewer than five people.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wealthy plantation owners like Lloyd came close to forming an American ruling class in the years before the Civil War. They helped shape foreign and domestic policy with one goal in view: to expand the power and reach of the cotton kingdom of the South.

Detailed explanation-4: -Between 1492 and 1820, approximately ten to fifteen million Africans were forcibly brought to the New World, while only about two million white Europeans had migrated. Thanks to its English-Caribbean colonial roots, South Carolina employed many more African slaves than did North Carolina.