Why do you feel planters were hesitant to grow different types of crops ?

During colonial times, agriculture was the basis of society in

South Carolina. South Carolina’s economy, politics, and social

standing revolved around the institution of slavery. Large

plantations used the headright method and slave labor to work the

fields. By 1860, South Carolina had the highest percentage of

slaveholders in the nation, even though few slave owners owned

large plantations. Most South Carolinians lived on family or

subsistence farms and did not own slaves. The majority of slave

owners only owned one to two slaves and often worked in the field

beside their slaves.

Explanation:

united states government;

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)