USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Its people were English, Scots-Irish, French, and West Indian. Free and enslaved Africans lived in the city as well. 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Settlers in the Southern colonies came to America to seek economic prosperity they could not find in Old England. The English countryside provided a grand existence of stately manors and high living. But rural England was full, and by law those great estates could only be passed on to the eldest son.