The
Southern
Colonies
(Am Na – p 106)
Virginia
1607
Maryland
1632
Carolina
1670
North Carolina 1712
South Carolina 1712
Georgia
1732
Warmer weather
Longer growing season
Large areas of flat land with fertile soil
2 main areas:
Tidewater – area along coast
Backcountry – area at the foot of the
Appalachian Mts
Indigo
Rice
Tobacco
Lumber
Grain
Savannah
Charlestown
Williamsburg
Baltimore
The colony of
(Am Na – p108)
Georgia
He wanted a colony where
debtors could make a new start.
England wanted a buffer
between Spanish Florida
and the Carolinas.
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Two Ways of Life
*Tidewater (Low Country)
 Site of earliest plantations with their own docks for
shipping
 Used African slave labor (*majority of population)
 Small percentage of white southerners owned large
plantations, yet Planters set the style of life in the South.
*Backcountry (Up Country)
 Much smaller farms; very few slaves
 Great variety of ethnic groups; majority white population
 More democratic; treated each other as equals
•The wealthy hired tutors to educate their
children at home.
•Some sent their children to school in England.
•There were some private schools.
•Most everyone else did without schooling.