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What are four items that best describe the colony of South Carolina?
Large plantations, rice, indigo, indentured servants and black slaves, wealthy Virginians and Englishmen.
How was farming in new England and the southern colonies the same?
I'd say that independent small farmers outnumbered the large plantation owners in both colonies. Hope I could help, even if this is a bit late...
Why was slave labor more important to the southern colonies?
Because the southern states mainly produced good related to agriculture-- namely, cotton. By using slaves, slave-owners could maximize their profits because they didn't have to pay laborers.
What people did slaves work for in colonial times?
Wealthy plantation owners.
How did some enslaved Africans become free and how did some resist slavery in the southern colonies?
Some slaves were able to buy their own freedom from their owners, and others managed to escape to the north.
How were people in the southern colonies?
Most of them were wealthy, religious, plantation owners.
Who had political power in the southern colonies?
Rich white plantation owners and they're control of slaves and cotton.
Wealthy Southern plantation owners lived lives very much like the wealthy of what nation?
England
Were most Southern farmers wealthy slave owners Explain?
Most southern farmers owned no slaves
Who depended mostly on slaves in the southern colonies?
slave owners, slave traders, and plantation owners.
What political party was supported by wealthy southern plantation owners and New Englanders?
Federalist
Plantation owners controlled the economic and political life in?
Southern colonies
Who wanted the upper class to control the new government?
If you are asking about the American government the constitution was written by the elite of the colonies. They were lawyers, plantation owners, business owners, and the wealthy. The 55 men were the aristocracy of the colonies so there was no doubt who was in control from the very start. Washington was very wealthy, a plantation owner, and even distilled whiskey sold in the colonies.
Where did many Africa seek refuge when they escaped from their owners the the southern colonies?
The Pennsylvania Colony
Where did many African's slaves seek a refuge when they escaped from their owners in the southern colonies?
cool
What group controlled economic and political life in the southern colonies?
Planters
What was the southern class structure before the civil war?
Up top it was the wealthy land/ plantation owners that had acres of land. Then the small land owners After that the peasents Then the slaves
