• The South has rich soil and a warm climate.
• Tobacco, rice, and indigo were grown on plantations.
Plantation - large estate farmed by many workers
Social Classes
Planters - plantation owners
- wealthy landowners
- owned many slaves
Small Landowners
- owned small farms
- very few owned slaves
Tenant Farmers - people who worked on land owned by others
- they paid rent to the landowners with crops
- many tenant farmers were overseers
overseer - a supervisor of slaves
Slaves - were the lowest social class in the South and all of the colonies
