Colonial America 5b/c Southern Region

Place an X in EACH colony that was part of the Southern Region. Hint there are 5. Use textbook pages 72 73 to complete the assignment. Appalachian Mountains Piedmont "Foot of mountains" Coastal Plains Wide Rivers Fertile Soil Humid Climate Good Harbors The weather is much warmer and more humid which affects the kinds of crops that can be grown.Southern colonies began for one simple reason: money.Jamestown in the Virginia Colony was the first English success and started as a business venture by wealthier investors.James Oglethorpe wanted to help people who were stuck in debtor's prison.In Georgia and South Carolina the big crops were indigo and rice. Throughout the south the landscape was marked b sprawling plantations, overworked slaves laboring in the fields, and small, often struggling farms started by indentured servants who had managed to survive and break free. What is one thing you learned about being an indentured servant in Colonial America? Timber was an important export for some parts of the South, but tobacco was the South's first really big business.Tobacco was a cash crop - grown for market, not for the people who grew it.Tobacco was very difficult to grow, needing many people to do the work. At first new indentured servants from England suffered very high death rate. Soon the Southern planters began buying slaves from Africa instead. Where were laws made in the Southern colonies? Market Towns Town Meetings Counties What was the heart of social life in the Southern colonies? Church of England Market Towns Small Farms What did the economy revolve around in the Southern colonies? Towns Plantations Small Farms What was rare in the Southern colonies? Plantations Small Farms Schools Place the characteristic in the correct category. Natural Resource fertile farmland forests Human Resource farmers enslaved African Americans Capital Resource Tools Buildings