Geography & Climate
The climate and length of growing seasons in the Southern Colonies
What was warm climate and long growing seasons?
The biggest cash crop grown in the South.
What was cotten?
The colony that was founded as a haven for Catholics from the English.
What was Maryland?
The founder of Georgia.
Who was James Oglethorpe?
The treatment of natives.
What was taking natives as slaves?
The 5 colonies that make up the Southern colonies.
What are, Virginia, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, and South Carolina?
The two types of labor forces used to run plantations.
What were slaves and indentured servants?
The place were debtor and poor people went to start a new life.
What was Georgia?
The title passed down from George Calvert to his son Cecilius Calvert.
What was Lord Baltimore?
Competition between colonists and natives.
What was competition for land and resources?
The geographical location with the best farmland and best place for plantations.
What is along the coast?
The two main trade ports/centers in the South.
What were Charleston and Savannah?
The essence of slave treatment.
What is treating people like animals and beating or killing them for no reason?
The founder of Jamestown.
Who was the English explorer John Smith?
The cause of an economy reliant on slave labor.
What was the high demand for labor on plantations?
Factors that made the Southern colonies ideal for settlement.
What were trade, farming, and business opportunities?
Smaller subsistence farms with less fertile soil.
What were farms further inland?
The date of Carolina's establishment and the date of its separation into North and South.
What was 1663 and 1712?
The man who first envisioned Maryland as a colony and the the founder of the Maryland.
Who were George Calvert and Cecilius Calvert?
The cause of some disease.
Other geographic features.
What are rivers, wetlands, coastal plains, and rolling hills?
The imports and exports of the South's involvement in Triangular trade.
What were agriculture exports to New England or Europe and slave imports from West Africa?
Maryland's religious freedom policies.
What was religious freedom for all types of Christians, but not for non-Christians?
The significance of Jamestown.
What was the first permanent settlement in North America by the English?
The cause for the lack of industrial development and economic diversity.
What was the sole dependence on large-scale farming on plantations?