USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The South was known for its large plantations, but small farms were much more common. Most southern colonists lived on small family farms in the backcountry, away from the tidewater.

Detailed explanation-2: -The climate of the South was ideally suited to the cultivation of cash crops. Unlike small, subsistence farms, plantations were created to grow cash crops for sale on the market. The plantation system was an early capitalist venture.

Detailed explanation-3: -At the height of slavery, the National Humanities Center estimates that there were over 46, 000 plantations stretching across the southern states.

Detailed explanation-4: -The cash crops of the southern colonies included cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo (a plant that was used to create blue dye). In Virginia and Maryland, the main cash crop was tobacco. In South Carolina and Georgia, the main cash crops were indigo and rice.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.