1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
leonid [27]
3 years ago
6

Why did the plantation system develop in the southern colonies?

History
2 answers:
kaheart [24]3 years ago
7 0
<span>Plantations developed in the Southern colonies of the US because of cheap labor.</span>
Natali5045456 [20]3 years ago
4 0
The plantation system developed for several reasons. The Southern colonies had been founded by companies or proprietors who wished to make a profit, and they accordingly encouraged cash crops like tobacco (in the Chesapeake) and rice (in the Low Country). These crops were labor intensive, which meant that growers turned first to indentured servants and then to African slaves as a labor supply (so, too, did sugar planters in the Caribbean.) They also required a great deal of land and capital, which meant that due to an economic principle called "economies of scale," cash crops, especially rice, favored very wealthy people with large landholdings and access to large labor forces. So in the Southern colonies/United States, the economic realities of staple crop production favored the formation of large farms, or plantations. Cotton, which emerged as the biggest cash crop in the nineteenth-century South, was less shaped by economies of scale--many small planters and farmers could profitably raise the crop. But even still, the largest cotton planters in places like Alabama and Mississippi dominated the Southern economy and increasingly its politics. Large capital investments in land and enslaved people made the production of large amounts of cotton profitable, so the region's dependence on cash crops continued to foster the plantation system.
You might be interested in
Suppose that you are trying to determine whether a secondary source is valid. What information about the source's creator would
LUCKY_DIMON [66]
I think the author's area of expertise. 
5 0
3 years ago
Why did states print large amounts of money under the articles of confederation?
pishuonlain [190]
To pay veterans and other obligations 
6 0
3 years ago
Why did many settlers come to the New England colonies?
ira [324]

Answer: I think that it is to find religious freedom

6 0
2 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Which schools today would compare to Puritan grammar schools?
Anarel [89]

The correct answer should be D, high schools.

8 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Write a 2 page short essay on the following question: What is your hope for America’s future?
svetlana [45]
*Opinionated and personal essay*

 America's future should be bright and technologically advanced. Throughout history, America has been enhancing and developing socially, mechanically, and politically. In the future, the expectancy would be very high due to the human race and America's prosperity. From the stone age's fire to the Civil War's new weaponry, America has been steadily improving upon civilization. Morally, new laws and rights are always amended in order to be fair and equal towards all no matter how they are different. America's future should be developed and have advanced.

5 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • What was the main effect of the cotton gin on slaves?
    9·1 answer
  • Other than the weather what force wears down the new rock formed by the magma from Kilauea
    10·1 answer
  • What divisions fought in the battle of the bulge?
    8·1 answer
  • Who borrowed money to create an invention known as the printing press, which he completed in 1450?
    15·1 answer
  • Describe the multiple groups and leaders that emerged in the fight for the Progressive agenda, including women’s rights, African
    10·2 answers
  • How does India system education work out
    11·1 answer
  • Settlers in the backcountry created new distinctive cultures, fueling social and ethnic tensions and often resulting in violent
    9·1 answer
  • Help me please please ​
    6·1 answer
  • Social Studies 7th grade
    12·1 answer
  • When was the tipping point at which the United States could no longer be considered an isolated nation? At what point could the
    9·2 answers
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!