In early Virgina, people lived on scattered farms rather than towns. Tobacco farmers soon began founding large farms called plantations. These plantations were made possible in part by use of the headright system. Under this system, colonists who paid their own way to Virginia received 50 acres of land! Colonist participated in plantations so they could make tobacco and earn land.
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In early Virgina, people lived on scattered farms rather than towns. Tobacco farmers soon began founding large farms called plantations. These plantations were made possible in part by use of the headright system. Under this system, colonists who paid their own way to Virginia received 50 acres of land! Colonist participated in plantations so they could make tobacco and earn land.
The plantation system was the division of the land into smaller parcels that were under private ownership. The plantation system started in Virginia.
labor shortages, slavery and cash crops led to the development of the Plantation system.
In Virginia, that was Nat Turner.
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Sharecropping and Tenant farming were two systems that replaced the plantation system in the south after the Civil War.