The Southern Colonies The five southern colonies are: 1. Maryland 2. Virginia 3. North Carolina 4. South Carolina 5. Georgia Wealthy settlers established plantations, or huge farms. The plantations used slave labor to harvest the crops. Slaves arrived in America through the Middle Passage.

Geography & Climate

1. Very long ______,summers and very ______hot climate.

2. ______Fertile growing soil made the Southern colonies ideal for farming. Economy 1. The southern colonies produced lots of cash crops on huge farms called ______,PLANTATIONS 2. Three important crops of the south were ______TOBACCO ______,RICE and______.INDIGO 3. Southern planters used ______SLAVES from Africa to work on these plantations. Town Life & Culture

1. Because plantations were so large, houses were very far apart. Life in the South revolved around ______PLANTATIONS rather than towns or villages.

2. The tidewater region was made up of rich, southern ______PLANTATION owners and were near the ______ATLANTIC coast.

3. The backcountry region was made up of farmers who owned small farms. They had no money to buy or feed ______.SLAVES

Only a small percentage of Southerners owned ______,SLAVES but those who did set the style of Southern culture. Rich plantation owners with hundreds of slaves were at the top of ______SOCIETY and highly respected by other whites. 4. Slaves were considered ______,PROPERTY not people. They arrived in America on one of the routes of the ______TRIANGLE trade.

Their journey from Africa to America is known as the ______MIDDLE PASSAGE 5. Southern colonies had similar geography and economy, but each was founded for a different reason. For example, Maryland was founded as a safe place for ______CATHOLICS

and Georgia as a safe place for ______.DEBTORS