Key term for AQA GCSE History, used in America: Expansion and Consolidation (1840–1895).
An agricultural mass-production system based on large estates producing staple cash crops (like cotton) for export, wholly reliant on forced slave labor.
Plantation economy appears in AQA GCSE History revision content for Period Studies, especially America: Expansion and Consolidation (1840–1895) and Background to the Civil War.
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