Tobacco plantations in the Chesapeake region:
a. were known throughout the world as models of how slaves should be treated.
b. were far less successful than tobacco plantations that developed in the lower southern colonies.
c. helped make the Chesapeake colonies models of mercantilism.
d. did not have any slaves on small farms.
e. were so profitable that by the mid-eighteenth century their owners became the wealthiest people in British North America.
Ans: c. helped make the Chesapeake colonies models of mercantilism.
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