Describe the key features of planter society in the Chesapeake.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Free colonists grew tobacco, striving to grow as much as they could.
2. Tobacco cultivation led to great economic and social inequality.
3. The key to success as a tobacco planter was control of a large, unfree labor force.
4. Great planters dominated Chesapeake society. This tiny group was wealthy and powerful.
5. Freemen formed the largest class in Chesapeake society. Most had once been indentured servants, and most lived on the edge of poverty.
6. Below the freemen were indentured servants.
7. Until the 1680s, it was relatively easy for a newcomer who possessed capital to join the planter elite.
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