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Colonial LifeMain Idea – The Economy of the Southern colonies is dependent on labor intensive cash crops
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Tobacco and Rice and Indigo…
• Cash Crop grown as a money making venture
• 3 Cash Crops in the South
• Tobacco – VA, MD, NC• Rice – SC, GA• Indigo – SC
• All very labor intensive to
harvest
• Grown on Plantations
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Gentry
BackCountryFarmer
Tenant Farmer
Indentured Servant
Slaves
Social Structurein the SouthernColonies
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Who is Who?• Gentry – wealthy, landowners,
plantations, slave owners• Back Country Farmers – Former
Indentured Servants, not much money, subsistence farmers
• Tenant Farmers – work someone else’s land
• Indentured Servants – Agree to work for period of time in exchange for trip to America
• Slaves – Property – no rights – Slave Code
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Bacon’s Rebellion - 1676
• BCF not allowed to move west into native land
• Bacon leads BCF against natives, then gentry
• Burns down Jamestown
• Bacon dies in swamp• Rebellion Fails!• So why even talk
about it ? Because….
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Long-term Effects of Bacon’s Rebellion
• Gentry don’t want another rebellion
• Indentured Servants set free and become BCF
• No Indentured Servants – Slave labor instead
• Slavery becomes part of the Southern economy
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Slavery Becomes a Business