CLEP US History I

Answer: D -The fact that much of the land in the South was given to nobility in large land grants facilitated the growth of the plantations system, which required slavery to be profitable. In the middle colonies, which were often settled by religious communities or housed non-English colonialists who remained after the British took over, family farms were more the norm. Therefore, they did not require the number of laborers needed to maintain the plantations. The tight religious communities of the North tended to settle in towns, which were virtually non-existent in the South. Because the land was inhospitable to farming, those in the North were more dependent on trade and craftsmanship than those in the South.