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E N D Presentation Transcript The Southern Colonies Chapter 3 Section 1 Tobacco Largely agricultural Based on cash crops tobacco, rice, indigo Require large amounts of labor Led to plantations Demand for tobacco high in Europe, supply low Planters become very wealthy Tobacco very labor intensive Need lots of labor to get rich The Planter Elite Southern society had many social classes The Planter Elite or gentry were upper class Plantations were self contained communities In 1600s, plantations were small Labor was indentured servants By 1700, used slave labor As wealth increased, so did leisure time Backcountry Farmers Also called yeomen farmers Lived away from coast Worked small plots of land Mainly subsistence farmers Indentured Servants Often swapped 50 acres (headright system) for passage to colonies Gentry paid their way Got land back when debt paid Had to work 7 years Often died & didnt claim land Lowest social class Crisis Over Land Many tenant farmers & indentured servants want to own land 1670s- available land in Piedmont- foothills Gentry owned plantations in the Tidewater (near coast) Didnt want people in Piedmont, would make Native Americans mad 1675, war between Native Americans and settler in Piedmont Governor stopped the fighting Nathaniel Bacon Bacon- gentry with land near the piedmont Had been attacked by Native Americans Organized militia and attacked Native Americans Bacon returned to Jamestown Seized city Charged governor with corruption Governor raised army Bacon got sick and died suddenly Rebellion ended Slavery Increases in VA After rebellion, VA expanded to get land for small farmers Plantation owners switch from indentured servants to slaves Why the switch
