They traveled in Conestoga wagons
British - Colonists were recruited from among middle-class farmers, artisans, tradesmen, indentured servants, convicted criminals or immigrants from other countries.
French - Initially fur traders, merchants, and missionaries. In 1665 some 1100 French soldiers arrived and were given land. Neither Protestants nor peasant farmers were allowed to emigrate.
Answer:
How did South Carolina respond to the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860? It called for a state convention and demanded a recount. It reluctantly agreed to support the policies of the new president. It declared independence from the Union and the Confederacy.
Explanation:
Answer:
Slaves provided much of the labor on plantations that grew cash crops.
Plantations were the main economic activity in the American South during the antebellum period. These plantations cultivated cotton, tobacco, sugar, indigo, and rice. The warm climate, plentiful rainfall and fertile soil meant that the plantations were able to flourish. However, they were labour-intensive, and most workers were African slaves. Planters held dozens, or sometimes hundreds, of slaves, making slave labor very important to the economy of the Southern colonies.
Answer:
Soybeans
Explanation:
Soy beans is an example of increased farming variety beginning in the 1970s. The 1970s period has been characterized broadly as a period of great farm prosperity, this is likely caused by a short period of high farm income.
In the early 1970s, soybean sales grew more than corn, this caused it to become America's number one cash crop.
