The Southern Colonies
Which region were the Southern Colonies located in?
Answer: The southern region of the thirteen colonies
What are crops grown to be sold for money called?
Answer: Cash crops
Who ruled all thirteen colonies?
Answer: The British king
What system traded goods between the colonies, England, and Africa?
Answer: The Triangular Trade
What was the Great Awakening mainly about?
Answer: Religion and faith in God
Name one Southern Colony.
Answer: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia
Name one major cash crop grown in the Southern Colonies.
Answer: Tobacco, rice, or indigo
What were colonies called that were ruled directly by the king?
Answer: Royal colonies
What types of goods were traded from the colonies to England?
Answer: Crops and raw materials
What do we call a time when people turn back to God?
Answer: A revival
Why was the climate good for farming in the Southern Colonies?
Answer: It was warm with a long growing season
Who was forced to do most of the work on plantations?
Answer: Enslaved Africans
Who was the leader of most colonial families?
Answer: The father
What group of people were kidnapped and sold during the Triangular Trade?
Answer: Africans
Name one leader of the Great Awakening.
Answer: Jonathan Edwards or George Whitefield
What were large farms in the Southern Colonies called?
Answer: Plantations
Why did plantations need so many workers?
Answer: They were large farms that grew crops year-round
Why did many children in the Southern Colonies learn at home?
Answer: Farms were far apart
What was the dangerous ocean journey enslaved Africans were forced to take called?
Answer: The Middle Passage
What did Great Awakening preachers teach was more important than just going to church?
Answer: Personal faith and conversion
Why were rivers important to the Southern Colonies?
Answer: They made it easier to ship crops for trade
Why were enslaved people not paid for their work?
Answer: They were forced to work and had no freedom
Why were colonies sometimes called “little countries”?
Answer: Each colony had different laws, jobs, and ways of life
Why was trade important to the colonies?
Answer: It helped them make money and get goods they needed
How did the Great Awakening influence ideas about freedom and equality?
Answer: It taught that all people were equal before God