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The Planations influenced the Civil War because they had their free source of labor taken away. The slaves even though they had no choice to work or not. Slaves pretty much just adapted to what they had to live with they made like a community. For themselves and they still kept their religons. (Slaves and Keeping Their Culture) I think this is good because they can still keep their culture. The slaves male and female had many different special abilities, the males were powerful and could do a lot of labor within a short amount of time. The women could cook clean and sew etc. Slaves had to work from sunrise from sundown so they hard rough hours, with tough work. (Slaves and Their Difficulties) I think this formed a lot of their new culture and what they would do. Slaves had to have work hard throughout their whole life. They had no other choice or they would get punished. (Plantation Life for Slaves) In my opinion their life was hard and they got no reward for it and they should have been treated better. Intro Sentence """""""Almost everyone in the south in the united states would sell cotton to the other countries such as Britain and France. More and more cotton was being produced and the production rate was at its highest. (Plantations Cotton Rate) The slaves were having to work their hardest and the foreign countrys were buying in large bulk amounts. Almost all sugar came from Lousiana in this time period. Lousiana was known for their sugar and they would beat out any state that would try to produce more sugar then the whole South combined. (Lousiana Sugar Producing) I think this shows what select plantations would produce as their cash crop. It also shows how the slaves didn't just have to pick cotton, some slaves had to grow the sugar and do other tasks. Intro Sentence Plantation owners were often very powerful people they were some of the richest people in the pre-civil war era. They controled a large amount of slaves and huge plots of land. What also made them very powerful is how they could control The United States economy. (The Powers of The Planters) I think this just shows how some owners of the top plantations in the industry were some the wealthiest and most powerful men in the U.S. At the time only a select few number of people were more powerful. The planter was the boss on the plantation. The plantations were reliant on themselves for resources like food. Plantations had everything they would need in a community right in there one community. (Plantation Life) I like this paraphrase because it shows how the plantations were run. It shows how the plantations would be able to live without anyone within 1,000 miles from them. "The typical plantation was a self-sustained community, an economic and political institution governed with a monopoly of authority by the planter." (Plantations and How They Lived) I like this quote from the selection because it shows how the planter was the only one in authority. Pretty much one person would be running hundreds of slaves kind of like a business but, with only 1 owner no VP's. "Cotton was fairly easy to grow, although bad weather and insects could destroy the crop. Producers could grow cotton just as profitably on small farms with few laborers as they could on large plantations with many slaves. Thus, many Louisianians raised cotton." (Plantions and How They Grow) I like this quote because it shows how the crops in the plantations would still beable to make a good living even if they didn't have a lot of land. This shows that almost everyone can start a plantation and make a good living. "Authorities granted large pieces of land, called concessions, to very influential people, many of whom never even visited Louisiana. Most colonists received smaller holdings, called habitations, that had a common width fronting on the river of six to eight acres, backing up from the river in a long and narrow strip." (How Plantations Got Started) This is a good quote in my opinion because it describes how many of the plantations would get started and get up and going. All they did is need a few slaves and they could start making some money.

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