SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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Farming staple crops like wheat and vegetables in large quantities
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Subsistence Farming
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Mercantilism
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Plantation farming cash crops like tobacco, indigo, rice, and cotton.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Southern Colonies had an agricultural economy. Most colonists lived on small family farms, but some owned large plantations that produced cash crops such as tobacco and rice.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Southern economy was almost entirely based on farming. Rice, indigo, tobacco, sugarcane, and cotton were cash crops. Crops were grown on large plantations where slaves and indentured servants worked the land. In fact, Charleston, South Carolina became one of the centers of the American slave trade in the 1700’s.
Detailed explanation-3: -The southern colonies’ economy was based on agriculture (farming). Many of the colonists who came to the southern colonies were rich aristocrats or businessmen from England and they wanted to become even more wealthy from owning land.
Detailed explanation-4: -What were the main cash crops grown in the Southern Colonies? The main cash crops in the Southern Colonies were tobacco, rice (called Carolina gold in South Carolina), and indigo.
Detailed explanation-5: -Economics of the Thirteen British Colonies The southern colonies had large plantations that grew tobacco or cotton and required slave labor, while northern colonies had small family farms.