1. The Southern Colonies Virginia Maryland North Carolina South Carolina Georgia

2. Southern Geography Chesapeake Bay Atlantic Ocean Appalachian Mountains

3. Cash Crops Grown to make money $$$ Tobacco Cotton Southern Economy

4. Plantations- large farms that usually grow one kind of cash crop.. Southern Economy

5. Indigo Sugar Cane

6. Southern Government Colonial Assemblies- –self-governed organization & structure of British colonial Government in America.

7. Virginia House of Burgesses, 1619 - Southern Government first representative Government in Colonial America. Rep resentative Government? Power is held by the people who elect rep resentatives to look out for their interests.

8. Church of England Religion: –Anglican Church or __________________ "Anglican" means "of England" Southern Society

9. Sparsely populated Plantation owners Indentured servants African Slaves Southern Society

10. Maryland Proprietary Colony Founder: Lord Baltimore Date: 1634 Reason for establishment: religious freedom for Catholics

11. Virginia Charter colony Founder: Date: Reason for establishment : John Smith 1607 Trade and Profit

12. North Carolina and South Carolina Proprietary Colony Founder: 8 aristocrats Date: 1660s / 1670 (SC) Reason for establishment: – Trade and Profit

13. Georgia Royal colony Founder: James Oglethorpe Date: 1733 Reason: Safe Haven for debtors –Served as a buffer state from the Spanish