1. The
Southern
Colonies

2. Maryland Started By: Lord Baltimore, Catholics Why?: Religious Freedom
Year Founded: 1634
Other Info: Safe haven (place) for Catholics
passed law-Act of Toleration to protect Catholics from Protestants and allow to worship freely

3. Virginia Started By: Virginia Company, Jamestown colonists
Why?: Economic Reasons (gold, fish, fur)
Year Founded: 1607
Other Info: first permanent English colony, grew tobacco, elected House of Burgesses in 1619

4. North Carolina Started By: Farmers Why?: Economic Reasons
Year Founded: 1660’s
Other Info: tobacco farming, timber and tar

5. South Carolina Started By: Eight Proprietors Why?: Economic Reasons
Year Founded: 1670
Other Info: Grew Indigo- a plant that creates blue dye- “blue gold”

6. Georgia Started by: James Oglethorpe
Why?: Created a safe haven for debtors and poor to start over
Year Founded:1733
Other Info: Last colony to be founded. It is a buffer between the colonies and Spanish-owned Florida.

7. Economy
Cash crops such as tobacco, cotton, indigo, and rice

8. Climate
Hot Summers
Mild Winters

9. Geography
Fertile Soil- Great for farming

10. Other
Information
Two groups who did not believe in slavery: Puritans and Quakers
Who controlled the economic and political life of the region? Large plantation owners
Why? They had great wealth and more influence

11. Farming
Because of the fertile soil and warm climate, most southern colonists made their living farming.
Some of the most important crops in the Southern colonies were:
-tobacco rice
-indigo cotton

12. Some farmers began to use slaves as free labor.
Large farms, or plantations, developed in the South
Agriculture: farming