Southern Colonies

What crops did the settlers in Carolina grow?

• corn and beans
• tobacco and rice
• rice and potatoes
• tomatoes and beans

James Oglethorpe created a colony for ______.

• business owners
• Germans
• debtors
• governors

Georgia was named after King ___________.

• John
• James
• Oglethorpe
• George

What does debtor mean?

• a plant that produces blue dye
• a person who owns land in a colony
• a person who has a lot of money
• a person who owes money to another

Name the Southern Colonies.

• Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida
• Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, North Carolina and South Carolina
• Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia
• Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina and georgia

The southern economy was based on what?

• Agriculture, Cash crops & making money
• Fishing, furniture building, & rum
• Harvesting jewels from the Appalachian Mts. & making jewelry
• Raising silk worms brought from Asia to make sails for ships

A crop that is sold for a profit is a

• cash crop
• subsistence crop
• corn field
• benefit crop

A large farm, usually with 50 or more slaves and producing many cash crops.

• Plantation
• Tidewater
• Backcountry
• Gone with the Wind

Under British law in the 1700's, people who owed money could be ____________.

• Killed
• Put in prison
• Sent to Antarctica
• Locked in a closet

What is an indentured servant?

• a person hired to watch the slaves as they worked and to punish them if they did not work hard
• a person who does a job to help the community or society as a whole
• a person who builds and repairs ships
• a person who agrees to work for someone in Colonial America for a fixed amount of time in order to pay for the ocean voyage