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It was the best way to grow large cash crops.
Jennings Hettinger
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∙ 8y agoFirst of all, US plantations were large-scale operations, which is always useful when you are producing and selling bulk goods like cotton. Secondly, the market for cotton was growing enormously, prices for growers were great and as yet the southern US States had a virtual monopoly on production, which is always a good thing for for price and supply control.
Cost were kept relatively low since most of the workers were slaves who only cost room and board. The invention of the Cotton Gin enabled planters to get even much more production per slave than before.
After the start of the Civil War and the blockade by the North of the Confederates' harbours, the countries needing the cotton quickly started to look for other sources of cotton production. Egypt and India were quick to fill the gap and delivered good quality and - since they were competing - attractive prices. After the war, the Southerners found that they had simply lost their export market and good prices; and that was the end of the planters' wealth.
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∙ 12y agoIt was the best way to grow large cash crops
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∙ 11y agoit was the best way to grow large cash crops
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∙ 8y agoLarge scale cotton operations, called plantations, made owners wealthy due to the demand for cotton nationwide and worldwide. The income earned made many of them wealthy.
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Where wealthy colonists built large rice plantation?
South Carolina
Who introduced indigo as a successful plantation crop?
English planters in colonial South Carolina.I believe the crop originated in Africa.
Who led the South under President Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
either white wealthy planters, federal troops, or black republicans
Which region of the country enjoys a mild climate and grew wealthy from a plantation-based economy that depended on slave labor in the early 1800s?
South
What was the goal to the wealthy planters in the south?
To have an aristocratic society like that in England
How did a plantation economy help planters the south become wealthy?
It was the best way to grow large cash crops.
How did a plantation economy help planters in the south become the south become wealthy?
It was the best way to grow large cash crops.
Who held the most political and economic power in the south?
small farmers formed the majority of the southern population, the planters controlled much of the south's economy.
Why did South Carolina planters become such a wealthy elite?
Because they exported cash crops like rice.
What the goal of the wealthy planters in the south?
To have an aristocratic society like that in England
Which group controlled most of the life In the south?
Wealthy Plantation Owners.
Where wealthy colonists built large rice plantation?
South Carolina
Who introduced indigo as a successful plantation crop?
English planters in colonial South Carolina.I believe the crop originated in Africa.
People who controlled the south's economy?
They were called Planters He/Nor She You're Right Planters
Did a small number of wealthy plantation owners control politics?
Small plantation owners, which was the secOnd highest social class in the south, controlled politics in the south.
How did the social status of planters and yeomen differ?
You are mixing up two time periods. Plantation owners were wealthy growers in the south in the 1800’s, but a yeoman was a person who worked for a king or lord in the Middle Ages. If you want to lay this out do a Venn diagram to help you answer.
Which minority wielded greatest political power in its region in the period before civil war?
planters in the South
