1. Southern Colonies

2. Carolina Territory granted to eight nobles by the king of England Many Carolina colonists came from Barbados bringing with them the harsh slave system By 1710, the colonists had annihilated the Indian tribes of coastal Carolina

4. Carolina Agriculture Primary export crop was rice Grown in West Africa so West African slaves were highly prized because of their familiarity with rice cultivation Charles Town grew as the major city in the South (we know it today as Charleston)

5. North Carolina Consisted primarily of Virginias poor. Raised tobacco on small farms with little or now slaves (slavery was too expensive) “a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit” Separated from South Carolina in 1729 and became a royal colony

7. Colonial Georgia Founded in 1732 Last of the 13 colonies English crown wanted it to serve as a buffer between the Carolinas and the Spanish Founded by James Oglethorpe Major city was Savannah Slavery emerges in Georgia after 1750