THE SOUTHERN COLONIES

THE SOUTHERN COLONIES INCLUDE

• Maryland
• Virginia
• North And South Carolina
• Georgia

THE SOUTHERN COLONIES

• The Southern Colonies were royal.
• Although, Maryland was propietary
• Royal:ruled by a royal governor and council of the British crown.
• Propietary: territories granted by the British crown to one or
• more propietaries who had full governing nights.

NATURAL RESOURCES

• Timber,
• Good agricultural land
• Fish

GEOGRAPHY

• Coastal Plains in the East
• Piedmont is farther inland
• Mountains are farther West

MAJOR CITIES/TOWNS

• Baltimore, Annapolis
• Williamsburg, Richmond
• Charleston
• Savannah

POPULATION

• Georgia was created by England
• Georgia escaped religious persecution.

ECONOMY

• Most people farmed rice, sugar cane and cotton.
• Slaves worked on large plantations.

FUN FACTS

• Charleston became an American slave trade center.
• Jamestown was founded by James Smith, the first English settlement
• They are mostly catholic.

CREATION OF THE COLONIES

• Maryland-escape religious persecution
• Georgia-by people in jail who couldn't pay
• their debts
• S.C./N.C.-land was given
• Virginia-they sailed to the new world and settled

THATS IT!