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England Settles S. Colonies
Geography of S. Colonies
Economy of the S. Colonies
Life in the S. Colonies
100
PROPRIETOR
What is the owner of a colony in the New World (America)?
100
Tidewater
What is the are where salty water pushes fresh water back?
100
Cash Crops
What are crops that plantation owners could sell for money?
100
County Seat
What is the main town of a county? They had their meetings here.
200
James Oglethorp
Who is the founder of Georgia for people from England who owed money?
200
Piedmont
What is the hilly area along the Atlantic Coastal Plain?
200
Indentured Servants
Who are people who paid off a debt of coming to America for appx 5-7 years, and would sometimes get free land when done paying off debt?
200
Tutors
What are the teachers for the plantation owner's children?
300
Hugenots
Who are the French Protestants who came to America to worship freely?
300
Atlantic Coastal Plain, Tidewater & Piedmont
What are the geography areas of the Southern Colonies?
300
Slaves
Who are people who came to Africa who worked against their will?
300
Folk Tales
What are stories that slaves told and re-told, for generations?
400
Debtors
Who are people who owe the King money?
400
Longer growing season
What is the Southern Colonies have warmer temperatures during the year?
400
Planters
Who are the plantation owners?
400
Slave Quarters
What are the places slaves slept with up to 20 other slaves at one time?
500
Annapolis
What is the capital of Maryland?
500
Appalachian Mountains
What mountain range runs through the southern colonies?
500
Rice, Tobacco, Indigo and Cotton
What are the cash crops of the Southern Colonies?
500
Back Country
What is the area where above the fall line, in the piedmont, where colonists settled to be alone?