By: Natalia,Daniel, Alex ,Connor,Luis,ryan,and Abhishek
The Southern Colonies
and their trais
Colonies
.Maryland
.North Carolina
.South Carolina
.Georgia
.Virginia
Physical Characteristics
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Good soil
Rivers keep soil soft and moist
The southerners grew tobacco, cotton, indigo, rice and grain
Damp climate
Economic Activities
They grew crops for money and sold it to Great Britain.They
also grew tobacco and Virginia made a lot of money selling
tobacco.The south had very good soil.Men had big farms to
grow corn,indigo and tabacco.
How did the geographic resources affect the
economy?
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Indigo provided lots of money
Tobacco was the BIGGEST cash crop due to england's demand
Good farming soil made crops almost too easy to grow
Lots of forest provided lots of lumber
Lots of animals for trade
Southern government
The southern colonies were under control by royal governments. Virginia was
the first governed place in the southern colonies. Also James oglethorpe ruled
georgia for 20 years. Just before the American Revolutionary War, there were
three proprietary colonies: Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania
Culture/Society
the people who lived in the southern colonies were mostly agricultural,and
consisted of wealthy plantation owners,and small farmers. They weren’t
dominated by a specific religion which gave way to religious freedom for Baptists,
Anglicans and others.