Settling the South Maryland Virginia North Carolina South

Settling the South • • • Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia

REASONS FOR SETTLING • Maryland – founded by Calverts – Make money – Refuge for Catholics – Grew tobacco (like Virginia

Carolinas • More land • Divided into north and south Rice

Georgia founded by Oglethorpe • People who owed money settled land to start new life

• Eventually plantations and slavery supported economy

Some settled backcountry

CONFLICTS: • Tuscarora War – push away settlers • Settlers kept moving onto Indian land

Many Indians died or moved

Life in the South

SLAVERY • Many slaves worked on plantations • Treatment depended on owners • Preserved culture through stories and songs

PLANTATION AND FARM LIFE: • Plantations: – Could be like small villages – Field and house slaves – Plantations were spaced far apart

Farms • Most people lived on farms • Did not usually own slaves

FREE AFRICANS • Some escaped and some bought their freedom Quilt story – underground railroad quilt blocks

Indians and Spanish Florida helped escaped slaves

The Southern Economy

CASH CROPS • Tobacco – needed a lot of land

Rice – needed warm, wet land

Indigo – needed dry land

TRADE AND INDUSTRIES • Plantations – important part of Southern Colonies economy

• Trade between England West Indies • Cities and plantations near ports or deep rivers were most successful

OTHER INDUSTRIES: • Fur • Forest Products • Shipbuilding

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