Southern Colonies
Geography
Southern Colonies
Economics
Southern Colonies
Government
Southern Colonies Daily Life and Religion
Southern Colonies
People
100
How long was the growing season?
Year-round.
100

Name a cash crop?

cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo

100

The colony was run by a _____________?

Governor

100

Why did some people have private tutors/teachers?

People lived too far away to bring kids to 1 school.

100
What was James Smith known for?
Colonizing Virginia and creating the No Work=No Food policy that got Jamestown headed in the right direction.
200
Name 3 natural resources.
Fish Grain Iron Lumber Rice Tobacco
200

What was the main industry?

Farming / agriculture 

200
Most governors were appointed by who?
The King or the colony's Proprietor.
200

Maryland was known for having  _______ ________ (thanks to Lord Baltimore). 

Religious freedom

200

What was Lord Baltimore?

Founder of Maryland

300

What cash crop was popular in Jamestown?

Tobacco.

300
Who did most of the farming and house work?
Slaves.
300
When did the Southern Colonies colonists have government meetings?
When they needed to talk about issues, intersets or laws.
300

The wealthy got to (choose) _______ unlike other people below the social class.

vote

300

Who founded Georgia?

James Oglethorpe 

400
What made transportation easier?
Lots of water ways.
400

What kept the African population under control?

The laws allowing them to be branded, whipped, dismembered, and sometimes even killed.

400

Government in Southern Colonies, Specifically in Virginia.

House of Burgess

400
What made diseases passed more easily?
Mosquitoes and warmer climate.
400
What did James Oglethorpe do?
He created a solution to the problem of the English Debt Law that sent debtors to jail. He made it so debtors worked off their debt instead of sitting in jail where they couldn't make money to pay it off.
500

Describe the location of where cash crops were grown? Who owned it and worked there?

Plantation. Plantation owner / slaves, indentured servants

500
The region had small farm but was known for what?
Large plantations.
500

Name the social levels of the Southern Colonies from lowest to highest.

Slaves, Indentured servants

Small Farmers, Artisans

Plantation Owners, Large Landowner's 

500
What was the main religion in the Southern Colonies?
They didn't have just one religion.
500
Who was Pochahontas's Dad and who did she supposedly save in 1607?
Pocahontas was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, she supposedly saved John Smith.
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