labor shortages, slavery and cash crops led to the development of the Plantation system.
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Sharecropping and Tenant farming were two systems that replaced the plantation system in the south after the Civil War.
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The South
The plantation system was the division of the land into smaller parcels that were under private ownership. The plantation system started in Virginia.
South, New South Democracy or New South Creed is a phrase that has been used since the American Civil War to describe the American South, after 1877. The term "New South" is used in contrast to the Old South of the plantation system of the period.