Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because?

Question

a)It relied mainly on artificial means to fertilize the soil
b)it required leaving cropland fallow every other year
c)excessive water was used for irrigation
d)it was to diversified, thus taking essential nutrients from the soil
e)its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land

Answer 1

E

Answer 2

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Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because?

Answer 3

D: The plantations tended to use slash and burn idea of agriculture. They needed large numbers of slaves to cultivate fields that were used for about two to three years and then abandoned and new fields found. That was why if you were a plantation owner you married your son off to your neighbors daughter you got more land.

Answer 4

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Being the great-grandson of a pre-Civil War plantation owner in South Carolina, I'm not so sure I'd agree that plantation agriculture was such a negative thing.
I think my great-grandfather probably did very well for himself, considering the time in which he lived.
Before the Civil War, he was a multi-millionaire, which would probably make him a billionaire by today's standards.
You might want to qualify your specific issues, so I / someone could give you a more precise answer.

Answer 5

It only concentrated on cash craps like cotton and tobacco instead of food plots to help feed the local economy.

Answer 6

E Then they wanted to move their ag. to more land.