Tobacco Plantations in the Chesapeake Region

Tobacco plantations in the Chesapeake region:

A) were so profitable that by the mid-eighteenth century their owners became the wealthiest people in British North America.
B) did not have any slaves on small farms.
C) helped make the Chesapeake colonies models of mercantilism.
D) were far less successful than tobacco plantations that developed in the lower southern colonies.