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Why did farmers who had small pots of land sometimes work on plantations?
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∙ 6y ago
They didn’t work on plantations. Slaves worked the plantation and even a small fram has a lot of work to do.
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Why did farmers who had small plots of land work on plantations?
They could earn some extra money that way.
What social class did the southern plantations owners come?
They came from the European aristocracy. They only "owned" the land in the sense that their royal cronies gave them permission to take it.
What reason was given for the need of the black labor in the south?
Whites wanted to get more land and money. sometimes when you had a slave you would get more land for it.
Why were wealthy farmers the powerful people in the southern society?
They were more than farmers they owned vast amounts of land and slaves. The growth of cotton after the invention of the cotton gin added more money to the coffers of the wealthy and tobacco was another crop that gave vast wealth. There were poor farmers in the south as well , but the plantation owners controlled the south and held positions of power.
Why are there so many slaves needed at a plantation?
Large farms that have labor intensive crops, or large amounts of land required large work forces. Slaves were bought to work on large plantations as a sort of free form of labour for the slave owners.
Why did farmers had small plots of land sometimes work on plantations?
They could earn some extra money that way.
Why did farmers who had small plots of land sometimes work of plantations?
They could earn some extra money that way.
Why did farmers who had small plots of land work on plantations?
They could earn some extra money that way.
Why did farmers who had small plots of land sometimes work on plantations?
They could earn some extra money that way.
What sends many protestant English farmers to Ireland to take over land owned by catholic farmers?
The Plantations.
Why do farmers cultivate in small plot of land?
farmers cultivate in small plot of land because 60 families of medium and large farmers cutivate more than 2 hectares of land and the remaining land is used by the large farmers which is more than 10 hectares. so farmers cultivate in small plot of land because the land is very less and the people are very more.
How where plantations in the southern colonies different from small farms?
northern farms were mainly family farms southern farms more like plantations where based on a slave economy
Where did Subsistence farmers lived on?
They Lived on small plots of land
What was the difference between small plantations and large plantations during the US Civil War?
An owner of a large plantation owned 50 or more slaves and over 1,000 acres of land. An owner of a small plantation owned from 20 to 40 slaves and 100 to 1,000 acres of land.
Why did the plantation system develop in Virginia?
In early Virgina, people lived on scattered farms rather than towns. Tobacco farmers soon began founding large farms called plantations. These plantations were made possible in part by use of the headright system. Under this system, colonists who paid their own way to Virginia received 50 acres of land! Colonist participated in plantations so they could make tobacco and earn land.
Who hoped to help the soldier-farmers of Rome by redistributing public land to small farmers?
It was the Gracchi brothers,Tiberius and Gaius.
How did the Mexican land reform finally occur?
individual small farmers and ejidos
