COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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African American-owned businesses contributed to colonial wealth.
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An agrarian economy developed based on the plantation system.
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Textile industries relocated to the South where slavery provided free labor.
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The Southern colonial economy grew wealthy from trading enslaved people.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America’s southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation.
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: -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-4: -As the numbers of enslaved Africans rose in the colonies, the practice of enslaving indigenous Indians decreased, and colonial officials further restricted the rights and movements of enslaved Africans and African Americans, including making it harder-even illegal-for slaves to be emancipated.
Detailed explanation-5: -The plantation system created a society sharply divided along class lines. The wealthy aristocrats who owned plantations established their own rules and practices. For this reason, the contrast between the rich and the poor was greater in the South than it was in the North.