SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Plantation owners were unsuccessful because they could not pay workers and make a profit.
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Plantation owners made most of their profits by buying and selling African slaves.
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Plantation owners relied on the enslavement of African people in order to be successful.
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Plantations were a small part of the economy that was mainly focused on trade.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which statement best describes the plantation system in the Southern colonies? Plantation owners were unsuccessful because they could not pay workers and make a profit.
Detailed explanation-2: -This article describes the plantation system in America as an instrument of British colonialism characterized by social and political inequality. It links the agricultural prosperity of the South with the domination by wealthy aristocrats and the exploitation of slave labor.
Detailed explanation-3: -Slaves worked at all sorts of jobs throughout the slaveholding South, but the majority were field hands on relatively large plantations. Men, women, and children served as field hands. The owner decided when slave children would go into the fields, usually between the ages of 10 and 12.
Detailed explanation-4: -Plantation life comprised enslaved people working seven days a week either doing domestic or manual labor. If rules were broken, punishments and violence would often be used against enslaved people by the overseer or other plantation workers.
Detailed explanation-5: -Which of these BEST explains the reason for African slaves being brought into the British colonies in Southern North America in the 17th century? The economy of Southern colonies needed non-wage labor.