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Southern Colonies

Chapter 3, Section 4

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Main Idea

The Southern Colonies relied

on cash crops to survive, while

the French and Spanish tried

to establish their ownsettlements.

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Coming to America

In the Southern Colonies,

plantations made huge profits.

There was a growing demand

for workers.

Criminals, prisoners of war, andthose who could not afford

passage to America often

arrived as indentured servants.

African slaves were capturedand shipped to America in

growing numbers.

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Virginia Expands

Virginia continued to grow.

Wealthy tobacco planters had

taken the best land by the coast.

Others moved west where they

fought with Indians.

Bacons Rebellion showed that

colonists would not be stoppedfrom expanding westward.

Bacons Rebellion

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Maryland

The Calvert family was given

a grant to establish a colony

as a safe place for Catholics.

Maryland grew quickly,

mainly from the sale of

tobacco crops.

Baltimore became the

largest city.

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The Mason-Dixon Line

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The Carolinas

Carolina was founded inthe 1660s a one bigproprietary colony.

Charles Town becamethe largest city in all theSouthern Colonies.Later, it would become

Charleston.

In 1729, it split into tworoyal colonies.

an early plan for the city of CharlesTown

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North & South Carolina

In North Carolina, tobacco was

the main cash crop

In South Carolina, rice and

indigo were the leading cash

crops.

Because growing these cash

crops took much labor, by the

early-1700s, more than half the

people living in the Carolinaswere enslaved Africans.

Slaves work on a riceplantation in South

Carolina

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France in North America

French settlement in NorthAmerica advanced slowly.

They made profits from fishingand fur trading than building

large colonies.

Their largest settlement wasNew France with its capital,Quebec.

The French enjoyed betterrelations with Native Americans.

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