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northern farms were mainly family farms southern farms more like plantations where based on a slave economy

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Were the farms in middle colonies as large as the farms in southern colonies?

The Middle Colonies had farms but not plantations. Southern Colonies had plantations and farms. (The plantations were bigger than the farms.)


How were plantations in southern colonies different from small farms?

Southern plantations were large and needed many workers, but most southern colonists lived on small family farms. plantations, but small farms were much more common.


What were the large farms called that were in southern colonies?

plantations


In which colonies was land divided in to large farms plantations?

Southern Colonies


How were plantations in the southern colonies differents from small farms?

Southern colonies had rich soil and warm climate


Many farms and plantations in southern colonies grew these?

cash crops


Did the southern colonies have large plantations or small farms?

mabye maybe not...:p


In which colony was land divided into large farms called plantations?

Southern Colonies


What did the southern colonies do on there normal days?

Well...all they did was use big farms(plantations) to harvest cotton.


Why were large farms located in the southern colonies?

Plantations for tobacco answered by dr.j-wad


What was the main settlement of the middle colonies?

plantations and large family farms


What colonies had large plantations?

The plantation system was developed in the Southern colonies of the US. A plantation system/economy is an economy based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few staple products grown on large farms called plantations.