The Southern Colonies

The five southern colonies

are:
1. Maryland
2. Virginia
3. North Carolina
4. South Carolina
5. Georgia
Wealthy settlers established plantations, or huge farms.
The plantations used slave labor to harvest the crops.
Slaves arrived in America through the Middle Passage.
 Geography & Climate

1. Very long ______________,

summers
and very _________
hot climate.

2. __________________
Fertile growing soil made
the Southern colonies ideal for
farming.
 Economy
1. The southern colonies produced lots of
cash crops on huge farms called
____________________________,
PLANTATIONS
2. Three important crops of the south
were ____________
TOBACCO __________,
RICE
and____________.
INDIGO
3. Southern planters used ____________
SLAVES
from Africa to work on these plantations.
 Town Life & Culture
1. Because plantations were so large,
houses were very far apart. Life in the
PLANTATIONS
South revolved around _______________
rather than towns or villages.

2. The tidewater region was made up of

PLANTATION
rich, southern ___________________ owners
and were near the ______________
ATLANTIC coast.
3. The backcountry region was made up of
farmers who owned small farms. They had
no money to buy or feed ______________.
SLAVES

Only a small percentage of Southerners

owned ______________,
SLAVES but those who did
set the style of Southern culture. Rich
plantation owners with hundreds of slaves
SOCIETY
were at the top of ______________ and
highly respected by other whites.
4. Slaves were considered ____________,
PROPERTY
not people.
They arrived in America
on one of the routes of
the __________
TRIANGLE trade.

Their journey from

Africa to America is
known as the ____________________
MIDDLE PASSAGE
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 _____________
CATHOLICS

and Georgia as a safe

place for __________.
DEBTORS