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The Southern Colonies of British colonies in North America were North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and Virginia, where the first permanent settlement among them was at Jamestown. North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States South Carolina ( is a state in the southern region ( Deep South) of the United States of America. The Province of Georgia (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern colonies in British North America. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state Jamestown, located on Jamestown Island in the Virginia Colony, was founded on May 14 1607

The hope of gold, resources, and virgin lands drew English colonists to the Southern Colonies. Their economy was driven by plantations, initially worked by indentured servants, a labor force which was largely replaced in the early 18th century by slaves imported from Africa, except for Georgia, where most plantations were worked by debtors. Fundamentally a plantation is usually a large Farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country on which Cotton, Tobacco An indentured servant is a form of Debt bondage worker The Laborer is under Contract of an Employer for some period of time usually three to Slavery in the United States began soon after English colonists first settled Virginia in 1607 and lasted until the passage of the Thirteenth Colonial South Carolina relied mainly on the Indian slave trade and deerskin trade until the Yamasee War of 1715. Indian Slavery was the practice of using Indigenous peoples of the Americas as Slaves. The deerskin trade between Colonial America and the Native Americans was one of the most important trading relationships between Europeans and Native Americans especially The Yamasee War (also spelled Yemassee War) ( 1715 - 1717) was a conflict between colonial South Carolina and various Native American Indian Thereafter the colony economy diversified. Rice plantations, and later other cash crops like cotton, worked by African slaves overtook the Indian trade as the colony's economic foundation.

The ports of Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia traded with Great Britain, slave ships from Africa, and the Caribbean. Charleston is a city in Charleston county in the US state of South Carolina. Savannah is a city located in the state of Georgia, United States. See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands The Caribbean (ˌkærəˡbiən kæ'rəbiən Cariben|Caraïben or Caraïben; Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Caribe is a Region consisting Their cash crops were tobacco, cotton, indigo, and rice. Tobacco is an Agricultural product recognized as an addictive drug processed from the fresh Leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. Cotton is a soft staple Fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant ( Gossypium sp Indigo is the Color on the Electromagnetic spectrum between about 420 and 450 nm in Wavelength, placing it between Blue and violet Rice is a Cereal foodstuff which forms an important part of the diet of many people worldwide and as such it is a staple food for many

The first representative legislative body met at Jamestown in 1619, and became known as the House of Burgesses, a precursor to the Virginia General Assembly. The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first elected lower house in the legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Throughout the colonies, the government, subject to the Crown and Royal Governors, was dominated mainly by planters and farmers, and consisted only of men and landowners. For the government of parliamentary systems see Executive (government. Fundamentally a plantation is usually a large Farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country on which Cotton, Tobacco A farmer is a person who raises living organisms for food or raw materials Such John Rolfe who increased the tobacco processing business.

In the Southern colonies, winters were mild and summers were hot. There were huge farms and plantations. Houses were usually miles apart from each other.

The southern colonies were perfect for growing crops and maintaining animals. It had the warmest climate of America, and it had a lot of rivers. They even had the largest river in America.


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