SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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New England
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Middle
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Southern
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The plantation system developed in the American South as British colonists arrived in what became known as Virginia and divided the land into large areas suitable for farming.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Southern Colonies had an agricultural economy. Most colonists lived on small family farms, but some owned large plantations that produced cash crops such as tobacco and rice.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most plantations are clustered along a stretch of the Mississippi River in Louisiana.