USA HISTORY

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. Many slaves worked on plantations.

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: -The Southern Colonies included the first English colony of Virginia, and grew to include Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The geography included rich, fertile soil with broad coastal plains that made it possible for large plantations to grow tobacco, rice, and indigo.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tobacco Plantations Tobacco was the first plantation crop raised by the Southern colonies. The first Southern plantations were worked by Indentured servants the massive sizes of the plantations needed more and more labor. Work on the tobacco plantations required slaves.