Delegates keep divided opinions to themselves because if they don't agree with it the public won't either
With the melting Ice caps the Ocean around us is rising. Making the land around the U.S. shrink. Now if we are talking in the past the land became larger around the iceage because of the freezing water.
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The plantation system developed in the American South as the British colonists arrived in Virginia and divided the land into large areas suitable for farming. Because the economy of the South depended on the cultivation of crops, the need for agricultural labor led to the establishment of slavery.