This is my Powerpoint on the Southern Colonies

1. BY: Shelby Papst

2.  Cash Crops – tobacco (sold all over Europe),
rice, indigo, sugar, corn
 Trading
 Agriculture – most popular region for
agriculture
 Shipbuilding

3.  Democracy
 Colonies in same region had different
governments and laws
 Virginia House of Burgesses – representative
government with selected representatives
from each colony

4.  Virginia
 Maryland
 Carolinas (North & South)
 Georgia

5.  Founded in 1607 by the Virginia Company of
London for trading and search for wealth
 Jamestown- 1st permanent English settlement
in the New World
 Government – Virginia House of Burgesses
 John Smith and John Rolfe – settlers in
Jamestown
 Traded a lot
(John Rolfe with wife Pocahontas)
(John Smith)

6.  Founded in 1632 by Lord Baltimore (Cecelius
Calvert) for religious haven for Catholics
 Toleration Act in 1649 gave religious freedom
to all Christians in a colony
(Lord Baltimore – founder of Maryland)

7.  Founded in 1663 by
business men
(Proprietors) as a
reward for loyalty to
King Charles ll and for
business
 Small farms
 Founded in 1663 by
business men
(Proprietors) as a
reward for loyalty to
King Charles ll and for
business
 Rice and indigo
plantations
North Carolina South Carolina
(Split into separate colonies in 1739)

8.  Slaves worked on plantations (large farms
where cash crops were grown by slaves)
 Indentured servants
 Shipped by thousands to work in fields
 Supported planters
 Hardships – beatings, branding, brutality,
starved, illnesses
 Many feared being eaten alive