Southern Colonies Economy: Plantations and Cash Crops

Colonial Economies, Labor, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Analyze how long growing seasons and fertile soil created a plantation economy dependent on tobacco, rice, indigo, and enslaved labor.

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Colonial Economies, Labor, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

4th Grade · Social Studies · US-OK-SS

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Compare regional colonial economies, understand the labor systems of indentured servitude and slavery, and evaluate the impacts of the triangular trade.

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