Unit 3- Lesson 3 The Southern Colonies

a large farm that grows one crop as a cash crop

• plantation
• indigo
• debtor
• village

a plant used to make blue dye

• corn
• indigo
• cotton
• rice

a person who owes money but cannot repay it

• debtor
• indigo
• plantation
• Leonard Calvert

The English established more colonies in the South by ____________________.

• giving away free land
• giving away cash crops
• advertising the benefits of settling there
• forgiving their debts

Who became the first governor of Maryland?

• Leonard Calvert
• Mr. Bryer
• Mary Musgrove
• King Charles II

This city became a busy port with large tobacco farms lining the shores of the bay.

• Charles Town
• Donegal
• Savannah 
• Baltimore

In 1649 the assembly passed the ____________ allowing religious freedom for Christians. The act declared that Catholics and Protestants could not threaten one another. 

• Toleration Act
• Stamp Act
• Religious Freedom Act
• The Baltimore Act 

This was the first BIG city in the Southern Colonies. It is known as Charleston, South Carolina today. This city is a tourist attraction. 

• Boston
• Charles Town
• Pittsburgh
• Savannah 

Plantations in the Carolinas grew ________, _________, and __________.

• tobacco 
• rice
• indigo 
• All of the above 

What kind of work did people do on plantations?

• working in the fields and gardening
• doing laundry and carpentry 
• blacksmithing and working in the flour mill
• all of the above