NOMIC 1. Sugar cane required Iarge acreages of land which led to a demand for land and an increase in the price of land. 2. In order to extend the size of land, a process of absorption occurred where wealthy land owners took over the land of their poor neighbours, sometimes using illegal ways. 3. Many small proprietors were dispossessed which resulted in many persons having to change their job. 4. Poor whites moved (o urban areas in search of jobs such as innkeepers; clerks and skilled craftsmen., some migrated to other colonies and North America, others became buccaneers or fishermen while some went into the army. 5. Monoculture — The land owners concentrated on the cultivation of a single crop (sugar cane). 6. Landholdings increased in size, previous smallholdings were grouped together into larger estates under the ownership of one planter or two planters. POLITICAL, 1, The colonies wee neglected by the mother country. Lord proprietors controlled the British colonies during this time. This system was changed to the Representative system when the mother country realized that financial gains could be derived from the colonies that produced sugarcane. 2. Warfare in the Caribbean for ownership of colonies. During the Tate 17" and 18" Century, there was the shifting, of islands from, one European country to another. Gop ito ‘Tobiicco satisfied all the conditions necessary for large soale production and export ‘* The smoking of tobacco was becoming fashionable or habitual in Burope and'so created a ready market for tobacco © Tobacco was not petishable once it was properly cured. It was therefore suitable for the lengthy journey to Europe. '» Tobacco was not bulky. It could be easily transported in small ships. «Tt was easy to cultivate and was grown on small plots of land. Labour was