USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Southern colonies included Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Its people were English, Scots-Irish, French, and West Indian. Free and enslaved Africans lived in the city as well. Main Idea Southern plantations were large and needed many workers, but most southern colonists lived on small family farms. The huge plantations in the South were more like small villages than farms.

Detailed explanation-3: -Virginia: The Original and Best Colony To Live.

Detailed explanation-4: -Savannah, Georgia, and Baltimore, Maryland were also key ports that provided access to the merchant economy. What largely defined the economy of the southern colonies was cultivating and producing tobacco, wheat, rice, and sugarcane further south in South Carolina and Georgia.