The Southern Colonies Virginia Maryland North Carolina South Carolina Georgia.

The Southern Colonies

• Virginia• Maryland• North Carolina• South Carolina• Georgia

Southern Geography

Chesapeake Bay

Atlantic Ocean

Appalachian Mountains

Cash Crops• Grown to make money $$$

TobaccoCotton

Southern Economy

Plantations-

large farms that usually grow one kind of cash crop..

Southern Economy

Southern Economy

• Indigo

• Sugar Cane

Southern Government

• Colonial Assemblies-– self-governed

organization & structure of British colonialGovernment in America.

• Virginia House of Burgesses, 1619-

Southern Government

first representative Government inColonial America.

Representative Government?Power is held by the people who elect

representatives to look out for their interests.

Church of England

• Religion:– Anglican Church or

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• "Anglican" means "of England"

Southern Society

• Sparsely populated• Plantation owners• Indentured servants• African Slaves

Southern Society

Maryland

• Proprietary Colony• Founder: Lord Baltimore• Date: 1634• Reason for establishment:

religious freedom for Catholics

Virginia

• Charter colony• Founder:• Date: • Reason for establishment:

John Smith1607

Trade and Profit

North Carolina and South Carolina

• Proprietary Colony• Founder: 8 aristocrats• Date: 1660s / 1670 (SC)• Reason for establishment:

– Trade and Profit

Georgia

• Royal colony

• Founder: James Oglethorpe

• Date: 1733

• Reason: Safe Haven for debtors– Served as a buffer state from the Spanish