the southern colonies
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The Southern Colonies
The Colonies
• Maryland• Virginia• North Carolina• South Carolina• Georgia
Main Purpose
• Economic (VA, NC, SC, GA)– Cash crops grown on plantations for profit
• Religious (MD)– The only Catholic colony among the original 13
Plantation System
• Owners of land made money by selling land to farmers who would establish a plantation
• Plantation- a farm that focuses on producing mass quantities of one cash crop
• Cash crops- Tobacco, cotton, rice, indigo
Labor Sources
• Indentured Servants– Pay passage to New World by working for a land
owner for a certain amount of time– Would receive land at end of turn
• Slavery– System of using slaves bought from traders for “free”
labor– Originally, whites and natives were used as slaves;
eventually exclusively becomes Africans