Southern Colonies Review

Jamestown

Created as an economic venture by the Virginia Company. The first successful English settlement.

Climate in the Southern Colonies

Humid with mild winters and hot summers

Roanoke Island

First attempt at an English Settlement. Know as the Lost Colony.

cash crops

tobacco, rice, cotton and indigo

Civic/ political life

centered around counties

Social life

centered around plantations

plantation

large farm that grew cash crops

natural resources of the southern colonies

harbors, rivers, and forest products such as lumber

southern colonies specialization

forest products such as lumber, pine tar and pitch and crops such as tobacco, rice, cotton and indigo

human resources in the southern colonies

farmers, indentured servants and enslaved Africans

main religion in the southern colonies

Church of England ( Anglican church)

The southern colonies had very few

cities and schools

Specialization

the process of becoming an expert in a particular subject or skill

indentured servant

a person who works for a period of time to pay off money owed for a debt