Vocabulary
This region was mountainous and filled with trees.
Appalachian Mountains
He founded Maryland as a haven for Catholics.
Calvert (Lord Baltimore)
This flat region, referred to as Tidewater, was ideal for plantations.
Atlantic Coastal Region
Large farms in the Southern Colonies that grew cash crops.
Plantations
The center of government for a county.
County seat
A crop grown for profit rather than personal use.
Cash crop
This law, passed in 1649, gave religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland.
Toleration Act
This region had rolling hills and was less fertile, but suitable for for small farms.
Piedmont Region
The plant used to make blue dye, grown in the Carolinas.
Indigo
People in this region lived in small farms, hunted and traded to survive.
Back Country
A person who works for a set time in exchange for passage to the colonies.
Indenture servant
This man founded Georgia in 1733 as a colony for debtors.
James Oglethorpe
This colony acted as a buffer between Spanish Florida and the English colonies.
Georgia
The main labor force on plantations by the late 1600's.
Slaves
This group of people had the most power and wealth in the Southern Colonies.
A person who owes money, some of whom went to Georgia for a fresh start.
Debtor
These people were granted control of the Carolinas and created rules favoring the wealthy.
The Southern Colonies had a warm climate and fertile soil, making them perfect for growing these types of crops.
Cash crops
Plantation owners preferred this type of unfree labor.
Indentured servant
Why were plantations mostly found in the Atlantic Coastal Region (Tidewater)?
The land was flat and fertile, with access to rivers.
Housing areas where enslaved people lived on plantations.
Slave quarters
French Protestants who fled to the Carolinas for religious freedom.
Huguenots
docks
Name two cash crops that were commonly grown in the Southern Colonies.
Tobacco, rice or indigo
Name two challenges settlers in the Back Country faced.
Lonely, no school, no towns, no church, had to chop down trees, had to grow or raise food to survive