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'''BIG IDEAS'''
'''BIG IDEAS'''
* tobacco in VA and MD
* plantation economy
* rice/ indigo in SVC
* social/ economic stratification
* frontier settlements & conflict with Native Americans
* Bacon's rebellion
* expansion of slavery
*** by early 1700s VA & MD planters switch from indentured servants to slaves
'''DETAILS'''
* cash crops:
** tobacco in NC, VA and MD
** rice/ indigo in SC
* plantation economy
* plantation economy
** increasing use of slaves
** increasing use of slaves
*** by early 1700s VA & MD planters switch from indentured servants to slaves
'''DETAILS'''
* demographics
* demographics
** stratification of southern society
** stratification of southern society
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== Colonial slavery ==
== Colonial slavery ==