Table of Contents
- 1 Why were plantation owners at the top of the Virginia Society?
- 2 Which colonies used large plantations to create income?
- 3 Which of the following statements are true because plantation owners owned the most land and slaves?
- 4 Why did plantation based economies develop in the Chesapeake and Southern colonies rather than in the middle and New England colonies?
Why were plantation owners at the top of the Virginia Society?
Because plantation owners owned the most land and slaves: they were at the top of Virginia society. A typical large plantation in the Chesapeake region was home to a wealthy family and skilled workers, along with: slaves and overseers.
What was the economy of the Chesapeake region and why did it develop?
The expanding tobacco plantation economy in Virginia was based on cheap land and cheap labor. Growing tobacco was labor intensive, and colonial planters soon found that immigration from Europe and natural population increases were unable to supply the numbers of laborers needed to work the tobacco fields.
Which colonies used large plantations to create income?
Many of the colonists who came to the southern colonies were rich aristocrats or businessmen from England and they wanted to become even more wealthy from owning land. The flat land was good for farming and so the landowners built very large farms called plantations.
Which of the following statement is true because plantation owners owned the most land and slaves?
Which of the following statements is true? Because plantation owners owned the most land and slaves: They were at the top of Virginia society.
Which of the following statements are true because plantation owners owned the most land and slaves?
Which of the following statements is true because plantation owners owned the most land and slaves?
Why did plantation based economies develop in the Chesapeake and Southern colonies rather than in the middle and New England colonies?
The climate of the Chesapeake region was suitable for valuable cash crops that required a longer growing season as opposed to the cooler climate of the middle colonies that allowed for grain crops to be grown.
Why did the Chesapeake colonies settled?
England had experienced a dramatic rise in population in the sixteenth century, and the colonies appeared a welcoming place for those who faced overcrowding and grinding poverty at home. Thousands of English migrants arrived in the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Virginia and Maryland to work in the tobacco fields.