Tobacco Plantations in the Chesapeake Region

Tobacco plantations in the Chesapeake region:

A) were so profitable that their owners became the wealthiest persons in British North America by the mid-eighteenth century.
B) enlarged enormously in the 1700s because of the great economies of scale in tobacco cultivation.
C) helped make the Chesapeake colonies models of mercantilism.
D) were far less successful than tobacco plantations that developed in the lower southern colonies.
E) were known throughout the world as models of how slaves should be treated.