You could get all this land because of the head right system which allowed a person to get land depending on how many people he or she had brought from overseas. When you had lots of land that also determined your social class at first the Carolina elite had lots of land and a large plantation. Having large amounts of land either meant you could have a plantation or sell your land to the government to grow certain crops on it which was called a subsidy. For example when Robert Horn said “ Every Free-man and Free-woman that that transport themselves and Servants by the 25 of March next, being 1667, shall have for Himself, Wife, Children, and Men-servants, for each 100 acres of Land for him and his Heirs forever, and for every Woman-servant and Slave 50 acres paying at most 1/2 d. per acre, per annum, in lieu of all demands, to the Lords