Really high for sure :) I don't know exactly.
Off there land is the correct answer
Interactions with the natural environment led to the cultivation of multiple cash crops, therefore shaping the institution of slavery, and values favoring economic benefits first in the southern colonies, and then the southern states of the North American Continent.
The Early Colonies
In the Chesapeake Bay region of Virginia, warm weather and plentiful rainfall prompted the cultivation of America's first cash crops: tobacco, and rice.
Virginia, as King Charles I put it, was "founded upon smoke."
Pine trees were in high demand for naval purposes.
Thriving economies of the southern colonies led to voluntary indentured servitude.
These indentured servants occupied a "middle rank between slaves and free men."
Eventually, indentured servants accounted for half of the white settlers outside New England
The Institution of Slavery Begins
Slavery slowly developed in the Chesapeake Bay region during the early seventeenth century.
By 1660, colonial legislative assemblies had legalized lifelong slavery.
Slavery ContinuesSlavery continued to spread in the southern colonies and began to spread into what would become southern states.
<span>Distinguished senator from Kentucky, who ran for president five times until his death in 1852. He was a strong supporter of the American System, a war hawk for the War of 1812, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and known as "The Great Compromiser." (responsible for the Missouri Compromise). Outlined the Compromise of 1850 with five main points. Died before it was passed however.</span>
