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Because it was easier to have slaves work the fields then to hire people or do it themselves.
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What best explains the dependence of the southern economy on slavery?
the south needed slave labor to support its manufacering economy
What people that controlled the south economy?
planters
What is the name of large profitable plantation owners?
planters
Why did slavery become a necessary evil of colonial economics?
Not all historians would agree that slavery was a "necessary" evil. In colonial America, slavery was a cheaper option was to running plantations than hiring laborers. Slaves weren't usually (if ever) paid for work, they often lived in broken-down buildings, their food was not high-quality.... etc. So I guess the shortest answer to this question would be: slavery was probably the cheapest and easiest way to run a plantation or farm.
What economic resource was is short supply and needed for the Jamestown planters to grow tobacco?
Natural resource.
Did planters support slavery?
Yes planters supported slavery. They did so because slaves were free labor and they needed them to work the fields.
What did southern planters believe would weaken the system of slavery?
Southern planters believed that if slaves learned to read, it would weaken the system of slavery.
How did issues of states' rights and slavery increase tension between the north and south?
Northern workers opposed slavery; southern planters support it
Southern planters believed that the system of slavery would be weakened by?
Urbanization and industrialization.
Why did many yeoman farmers feel resentment toward rich planters yet still support the institution of slavery?
becuase whites were duche bags!
What help make Caroline planters the richest elite what did the elite have to fear?
Their work force of slaves. They most feared that slavery would be abolished.
Why would southerners support a pro-slavery government if they did not believe in slavery?
Because slavery was the mainstay of the cotton industry.
What did southern think when a abolitionist wanted to end slavery?
the Southern planters thought that slavery shouldn't be ended for they needed the slaves for their crops
What did Southern planters think when abolitionistse William Lioyd Garrison called for an end to slavery?
pp
Where did slavery start in the Americas?
Originally in the South as a source for farming, income, and other necessities for planters and farmers.
Why did planters want poor whites to believe in slavery?
So that the poor whites could have slaves get thangs for them
How did Virginia tobacco planters fill their need for field workers?
enslaved African workers
