A Brief Look at theSouthern Colonies...

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A Brief Look at the Southern Colonies...
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Southern Economy - Plantations

• Plantation Economy
• Controlled by rich and large landowners
• Also called Planters
• Grow cash crops
• i.e. Tobacco, Cotton
• Mostly self-sufficient
• Grow and build what they need on the plantation
• Few large cities
• Requires lots of labor
• Indentured servants, then slaves

• Thomas Jefferson's mansion
• Monticello

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Cash Crops

• Cash Crop
• A crop grown to be sold, not to be used by the
  farmer
• Opposite of subsistence farming
• Tobacco
• Mostly MD, VA, NC
• Rice and Indigo
• Further south in SC, GA

Tobacco Field
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Transportation in the South

• Southern colonies were connected by many rivers
• Boats are major source of transportation
• Quicker and cheaper than going by land
• i.e. horse and wagon
• Plantations were usually built on rivers,
  reducing the need for cities with harbors

Sailboats carried cargo throughout the Southern
colonies
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Comparing North and South
Based on these notes and your reading of Sections
2 and 3, complete the chart comparing the
Northern and Southern colonies. Work quietly
with a partner. This topic will be part of the
essay for the Chapter 3 test.