SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Small yeoman farmers
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A large number of women workers
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Servants and slave workers
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Strong day to day management of the English government
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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. Many slaves worked on plantations.
Detailed explanation-2: -All England’s Southern colonies had many similarities as well as differences. They all relied on slaves and indentured servants to plant crops, and these staple crops allowed all of the colonies to prosper economically. In each colony, the population was mostly English, and white males owned land. Women had no rights.
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: -Southern economy was dependent on slave labour because they grew labour intensive cash crops. The south was mainly dependent on agriculture and farming as the main economy, and to maintain large plantations and fields slave labour was needed.