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US History timeline & concept chart: 16th-18th centuries (to 1754) British-American colonies: Difference between revisions

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* 1675-76 Bacon's Rebellion<br><br>
* 1675-76 Bacon's Rebellion<br><br>
* 1680s significant growth in slavery
* 1680s significant growth in slavery
* 1730s rice economy
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=== cash crops ===
=== cash crops ===
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** many former servants become tenent farmers  (rent not land ownership) due to costs of land surveys, fees, farming equipment & animals, etc.
** many former servants become tenent farmers  (rent not land ownership) due to costs of land surveys, fees, farming equipment & animals, etc.
** general trend is towards small-farm ownership and westward expansion in search for new lands to farm
** general trend is towards small-farm ownership and westward expansion in search for new lands to farm
* rice economy
** 1730 Parliament removed rice from mercantalist restrictions, freeing sale directly to other nations
** rice economy rose/fell with wars
** when price was high benefited freeholders and not large plantations