Social Studies Ch.7 Lesson 3 Pg. 248-251 By. Wendy Chae Southern Cities Social Studies Ch.7 Lesson 3 Pg. 248-251 By. Wendy Chae

Trade Ports Some of the settlers who lived far from the ocean brought their goods and traded them with imports from Europe and other places. Such as tea, coffee, and pepper. Luxury items like, furniture, silverware, and medicine were imported too. A lot of people in southern cities worked in the trade business. Some of them were fishers, hat makers, tailors, and printers. Children learned their jobs by becoming apprentices. They start living with a family who are skilled, and help them work for many years. This is how they learned skills.

Charles Town Charles Town in South Carolina became the biggest city in the southern colonies. The population grew about 5,700 from 1688 and 1708, which was 20 years later. Charles Town was the center city of life in South Carolina from 1670 to the mid-1700s. A lot of people in South Carolina lived here, or near the Charles town. They enjoyed their social life.  The people who had the most power in Charles Town were merchants and planters. Several planters lived in Charles Town when the insects infested the wetlands on the plantations where rice was grown.

Other Southern Ports In the 1720s, the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina started when the colonists began to move from South Carolina. They were actually looking for fertile soil, but instead they found lots of trees. So they cut down the trees and built sawmill. They also produced naval stores and shipped them to England as exports. The immigrants and the Cape Fear River helped Wilmington grow and prosper. Most of the immigrants came from other colonies and several parts of Europe. Savannah in Georgia was the capital city of Georgia until the late 1700s. It was the Georgia Colony’s chief port. Another port city, Norfolk, Virginia became famous, too, because Norfolk was a city where tobacco and naval stores were shipped to England. North Carolina also sent lumber to Norfolk so it can ship it to the England. In 1729, Baltimore, Maryland was found on the Patapsco river which flows into Chesapeake Bay. This city prospered, because a port needed for the a lot of grain and tobacco being produced in Maryland and other colonies that are close. Baltimore became a big port and a place for shipbuilding fast.

County Seats A lot of towns in inland were county seats. A county seat was the main town for a county which was a big part of a colony. Farmers and planters who used brokers or brought their harvests to buy and sell in coastal cities started to depend more and more on county seats as places to buy and sell. Many times a year, plantation and farm families would dress in their best clothes and pack their bags and take a trip to the county seat. People held dances, went to church, and traded crops for goods in the county seat. Some plantation owners bought and sold slaves there. The majority of the county seats had a general store, a courthouse, and a jail. Men who were white and owned land/other property met at the county seat to create laws and to vote for their leaders.

Vocabulary 1) apprentices: is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. 2) county seat: the seat of government of a county 3) county: is a land area of local government within a country

Questions How did children learned their jobs and skills? Who were the two kinds of people who had the most power in Charles Town? What did colonists find instead of fertile soil? Where was Baltimore, Maryland found? What is the “county seat?”