Which colonial region's economy is described in the following excerpt? "The Tidewater part of this region is very prosperous; there are large plantations which are making people very, very wealthy. Families that own plantations have a lot of control of society and government. The plantation owners do very little labor; they have a large labor supply of enslaved people that do the work for them."

How did shays' rebellion reveal the need for a revision of the articles of confederation? a) shays' rebellion exposed the weakness of the central government as written in the articles of confederation. b) shays' rebellion strengthened the ideas of the anti-federalists in the need for a strong national government. c) shays' rebellion illustrated the need for organized local government factions to handle situations such as this. d) shays' rebellion encouraged others to rebel and eventually led to the overthrow of the first established government in the united states.