USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Southern colonies included Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. English American Southerners would not enjoy the generally good health of their New England counterparts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Although most people of the Southern colonies were English, there were small groups of Scots, Scotch-Irish, Germans, and others. The official religion of Virginia and the Carolinas was the Church of England (the Anglican church).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Chesapeake Colonies were the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Province of Maryland, later Maryland, both colonies located in British America and centered on the Chesapeake Bay.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 1780 population of the colonies was 2, 780, 369. The largest colonies were Virginia (538, 004), Pennsylvania (327, 305), North Carolina (270, 133), Massachusetts (268, 627), and Maryland (245, 474). Approximately 78 percent of the colonies’ White population were English, Scottish, Scotch, or Irish.