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The South didn't NEED slavery but wanted it so that they didn't have to do work for example: slaves were made pick cotton so that the southerners didn't have to. so its not that they NEEDED slavery but that they WANTED slavery the thought of slavery as a way of life.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 12y agoBecause they had large farms and needed workers to work and collect the crops with no or little pay
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∙ 9y agoFor the most part, slaves in New World, and later in the US southern States were used to farm on the huge cotton plantations. Some slaves served as household servants as well.
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∙ 9y agoThe South needed slavery because the South`s economy depended on agriculture and they would not make a profit without slaves because salves were not paid
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∙ 13y agoBecause it was cheaper than hiring people.
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∙ 14y agobecause of slavery bre
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they didn't NEED it they wanted it to help the economy...
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What types of plantations were found in the south?
Cotton & Tobacco
Did South Carolina focused on their sugar plantations during the 1800s?
true
Who are tidewater aristocrats?
exceptionally wealthy white families that owned large plantations on the Chesapeake Bay around 1700
Plantations in Africa?
some plantations grow coffee,cotton,and tea for export
What accounts for large numbers of African Americans in the south?
Most people tend to remain near where their ancestors lived. Since a very large number of African Americans descend from Africans imported to the South to work as slaves, there are still large numbers of African Americans in the South.
The large farms in the South were called .?
Plantations
What is another name for large farms in the south?
Plantations.
What was a large farm called in South Carolina and other colonies?
Large farms in South Carolina were known as plantations.
The large farms in the south were called blank?
The large farms in the south were called plantations. Many had slaves working on them.
Where did many slaves work in the south?
Many slaves in the south worked on large plantations
Where did wealthy colonists built large rice plantations?
South Carolina
Where were most of the plantations of large landowners located?
in the south of the united states
In the south were most slaves forced to work on large plantations?
yes
Did the middle colonies have large plantations?
The middle colonies did have some plantations but not on the scale of the South. They were usually about one third to one half the size of the cotton plantations.
Was much of the south was divided into large farm lands called plantations?
yes
What were farms used in the south to grow large quantities of cash crops called?
Plantations.
Tobacco was grown on large farms in the south called?
Fields, storage, where it is harvested
