SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. Their fuel of choice? Human slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -The majority of all people enslaved in the New World came from West Central Africa.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of the primary reasons for the reinvigoration of slavery was the invention and rapid widespread adoption of the cotton gin. This machine allowed Southern planters to grow a variety of cotton-short staple cotton-that was especially well suited to the climate of the Deep South.
Detailed explanation-4: -What role did slavery play in the southern plantation economy? How was it regulated? Slavery provided the main workforce for the labor-intensive cash crops grown on the region’s large plantations. Most colonies passed laws to control the slaves.