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How did planters fill the need for large numbers of workers on sugar plantations?
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Why did sugar and cotton plantations require many workers?
They were very large. Cotton and sugar are both labor intensive crops that require many people.
How was slavery beneficial?
Slavery was beneficial because it provided free and easy labor. Most slaves were imprisoned in large numbers on plantations, where they produced many agricultural products, including sugar cane, cotton, and tobacco. They also helped the economy to grow.
The number of enslaved africans in southern colonies increased dramatically in the late 1600s mostly to satisfy the need for?
The number of enslaved Africans in the southern colonies increased dramatically to meet the demands of large scale plantations for agricultural workers. Observation of the economic growth of Caribbean plantations and how their profit margins had improved by ditching Amerindian slaves and replacing them with African slaves, served to ignite massive growth of enslaved people in the southern colonies.
Contrast the rice and cotton plantation slaves and their work?
Cotton production depended on large plantations, with much more acreage and also more slaves than was typical of plantations in the Chesapeake states like rice production.
How did most Southern see slavery?
Most southerners saw slavery as an economic necessity. Slaves worked large plantations all throughout the south. These plantations depended on this cheap/free labor to keep overhead costs down.
Owners of large profitable plantations?
planters
How were the lives of planters different from those of yeoman farmers?
The planters had large plantations and were rich and the yeoman had small farms and were poor.
How were wealthy planters able to do the work required on large plantations?
They hired other people to do it for them.
One reason that Europeans enslaved Africans was that?
Europeans had started huge sugar and tobacco plantations in the Americas. They needed large numbers of workers for these plantations, and slavery was one way to get them
Why were there so many enslave workers in this region?
They had large plantations. (Plantations are a big farm if you don't know what that means.)
Who were true of southern planters except that they?
There were many things true about Southern planters. Southern farmers often owned slaves, worked large plantations, and harvested crops like tobacco, cotton, and sugar.
How were plantations in the southern colonies differents from small farms?
Southern colonies had rich soil and warm climate
What name was given to large farms in the south that required many workers to keep them running?
Plantations
What names was given to large farms in the south that required many workers to keep them running?
Plantations
Why weren't there as many slaves and new England compare to the south?
Very few large plantations that needed a large number of workers.
How were plantations in southern colonies different from small farms?
Southern plantations were large and needed many workers, but most southern colonists lived on small family farms. plantations, but small farms were much more common.
What did people do for a living in souther colonies?
People were either wealthy planters who owned large sucsesful plantations or the were poor white farmers. but most of the population was made up by slaves.
