Colonial Economy & Cash Crops
This was the cash crop of Virginia and Marlyand.
What is tobacco.
This colony was founded as a safe haven for English Catholics seeking religious freedom.
What is Maryland?
This man was Georgia’s first elected governor, not the second, as some believe.
Who is John Adam Treutlen?
This city was the only major city in the southern colonies until Savannah grew into an important British seaport.
What is Charleston (Charles Town)?
Settlers with this type of background found it easier to adapt and succeed in the new colonies.
What is a European background?
These were the cash crops of Georgia and South Carolina.
What is rice and indigo?
This Georgia settlement was founded as a deeply religious community by German Protestants known as the Salzburgers.
What is Ebenezer?
This group of English colonists, known by this name, petitioned the trustees to allow slavery in Georgia.
Who were the Malcontents?
By this year, Georgia had grown to a colony of about 33,000 people.
What is 1752?
True or False: The southern colonies had many towns and cities that developed quickly.
What is False? (There were few towns and cities.)
Beef, cattle, cotton, lumber, rice, and silk
The Salzburgers produced what?
The settlers of this community banned liquor, slavery, gambling, and profanity to maintain their strict religious values.
What is Ebenezer?
In 1739, settlers from this country asked the trustees to keep the ban on slavery.
Who were the Scots (or Scottish settlers)?
This publication was Savannah’s first newspaper.
What is the Georgia Gazette?
Life on the frontier was described by these three words: hard, rough, and dangerous.
Question: What was life on the frontier like?
Some cash crops were successful in neighboring colonies tempting Georgians to begin cultivating them as well.
What were rice (grown in South Carolina) and tobacco (grown in Virginia).
Founded by George Whitefield, this was the longest-lasting orphanage for parentless children in colonial Georgia.
What is the Bethesda Orphan House?
By 1773, this many enslaved people lived in Georgia.
What is 15,000?
Augusta was known by this “blooming” nickname during colonial times.
What is the “Garden City”?
Boys in colonial times often learned these two essential skills from their fathers.
What are farming and hunting?
On January 1, 1751, this labor system—once banned in Georgia—was legalized after colonists argued it was essential for the colony’s agricultural success.
What is slavery?
In colonial Georgia, Catholics built their first church building in this city located in Chatham County.
What is Savannah?
These regulations governed enslaved people’s behavior, including rules like no work on Sundays or the owner would be fined.
What are the slave codes?
Match each description to the correct city or date: “Garden City,” Savannah’s first newspaper, Only major southern city before Savannah grew, and the Year Georgia reached 33,000 people
A — Augusta
B — Georgia Gazette
C — Charleston (Charles Town)
D — 1773
Girls learned these household skills from their mothers, preparing them to run a home.
What are cooking, sewing, and managing the household?