1. The Southern Colonies Southern Colonies Maryland Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Three Crops They Grew
Rice, Tobacco, Indigo, and later Cotton
Cash Crops are crops raised to be sold for a profit
Plantations are large farms that raised crops for profit using slave labor

2. The Southern Colonies Geographic Impact on living
Fertile soil and year around growing season made it ideal for plantation farming
Rivers were used to transports cash crops to port cities such as Charleston South Carolina for trade with other colonies and England
Towns and Government
The plantation class had all the political and economic power
Because plantations were self sufficient, few towns
Religion
Founded on the idea of religious freedom at least in Maryland (Acts of Toleration)forbid religious persecution
Huguenots were Prostestants were sought religious freedom in the Southern Colonies

3. Southern Colonies Slavery
At first few, labor provided by indentured servants, term of service over, need to find a new source of labor
Slaves, Native Americans and eventually Black Africans brought over on the Middle Passage
Most plantations had slaves under the supervision of an overseer
15 hour work day
Lived in small one room cabins
Physically punished for not doing work
Resisted in many ways some simple and outright rebellion (Stono’s Rebellion and Nat Turner’s Rebellion