The Southern Colonies - Commack Schools
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The Southern Colonies
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The five southern colonies
are:
1. Maryland
2. Virginia
3. North Carolina
4. South Carolina
5. Georgia
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Wealthy settlers established plantations, or huge farms.
The plantations used slave labor to harvest the crops.
Slaves arrived in America through the Middle Passage.
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Geography & Climate
1. Very long ______________,
and very _________ climate.
2. __________________ soil made
the Southern colonies ideal for
farming.
summers
hot
Fertile growing
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Economy
1. The southern colonies produced lots of
cash crops on huge farms called
____________________________,
2. Three important crops of the south
were ____________ __________,
and____________.
3. Southern planters used ____________
from Africa to work on these plantations.
PLANTATIONS
TOBACCO RICE
INDIGO
SLAVES
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Town Life & Culture
1. Because plantations were so large,
houses were very far apart. Life in the
South revolved around _______________
rather than towns or villages.
2. The tidewater region was made up of
rich, southern ___________________ owners
and were near the ______________ coast.
PLANTATIONS
PLANTATION
ATLANTIC
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3. The backcountry region was made up of
farmers who owned small farms. They had
no money to buy or feed ______________.
Only a small percentage of Southerners
owned ______________, but those who did
set the style of Southern culture. Rich
plantation owners with hundreds of slaves
were at the top of ______________ and
highly respected by other whites.
SLAVES
SLAVES
SOCIETY
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4. Slaves were considered ____________,
not people.
They arrived in America
on one of the routes of
the __________ trade.
Their journey from
Africa to America is
known as the ____________________
PROPERTY
TRIANGLE
MIDDLE PASSAGE
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5. Southern colonies had similar
geography and economy, but each
was founded for a different reason.
For example, Maryland was founded
as a safe place for _____________
and Georgia as a safe
place for __________.
CATHOLICS
DEBTORS