USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The lowest class was the poor. The poor were unskilled laborers, indentured servants, or slaves. Indentured servants were people who could not afford to pay for their trip. Another person would pay for the trip.

Detailed explanation-2: -The social structure of the Southern Colonies became increasingly stratified into three distinct classes: planters, servants, and slaves.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Slavery in the South South Carolina, North Carolina, and Maryland each had over 100, 000 slaves. After the American Revolution, the Southern slave population exploded, reaching about 1.1 million in 1810 and over 3.9 million in 1860. Source: Historical Statistics of the U.S. (1970).

Detailed explanation-5: -The Origins of American Slavery Most of those enslaved in the North did not live in large communities, as they did in the mid-Atlantic colonies and the South. Those Southern economies depended upon people enslaved at plantations to provide labor and keep the massive tobacco and rice farms running.