USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Overview. With the invention of the cotton gin, cotton became the cash crop of the Deep South, stimulating increased demand for enslaved people from the Upper South to toil the land.

Detailed explanation-2: -Enslaved Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619. The settlements required a large number of laborers to sustain them. Because these crops required large areas of land, the plantations grew in size, and in turn, more labor was required to work on the plantations.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The fertile soil and warm climate of the South made it ideal for large-scale farms to grow crops like tobacco and cotton. Because agriculture was so profitable, few Southerners saw a need for industrial development. Eighty percent of the labor force worked on a farm or plantation.