Southern Colonies, Great Awakening, and the Enlightenment

What is the main idea of this text?

• Colonists in the South preferred to grow rice instead of tobacco and Southern colonies only grew small family gardens instead of cash crops.

• Tobacco became an important cash crop in the Southern colonies, leading to the growth of plantations that relied heavily on enslaved African labor.

• Farming in Virginia and Maryland was easy and required very little work.

• • England stopped buying crops from the Southern colonies and

  • Southern colonies only grew small family gardens instead of cash crops.

What does "high demand" mean?

• It means that only a few people want something.

• It means that lots and lots of people want something.

• It refers to a crop that is very hard to grow.

• It means that it is too expensive for most people to buy it.

What is agriculture?

• Agriculture is the process of turning cotton in to cloth.

• The practice of growing plants to eat for food and other useful purposes.

• Agriculture is the process of building machines and factories.

What can you infer from this text?

• The Southern Colonies grew enough food and did not need to trade with other countries.

• The Southern Colonies depended on trade with England, and their economy was strongly based on farming cash crops.

• The Southern Colonies were completely independent from England’s economy.

• Colonists in the South only traded within their own towns and never sent goods overseas.

What is an export?

• A plant used for blue dye for clothing.

• Bringing something from another country into your own country to be sold or used.

• Something sent to another country to be sold.

What is the main idea of this text?

• In addition to tobacco, Southern colonies like South Carolina and Georgia grew crops such as rice and indigo for export to Europe.

• Tobacco was the only crop that grew in South Carolina and Georgia.

• • Southern crops could only grow in mountainous areas far from the coasts and colonists in the South avoided exporting crops to Europe.

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What can you infer from this text?

• The Southern colonies had the right land and climate to grow crops like rice and indigo successfully.

• Growing rice and indigo required careful work and planning, so it was likely hard and time-consuming labor.

• Europe valued these crops, so exporting them brought wealth and trade opportunities to the Southern colonies.

• The Southern colonies did not have swampy or flat land suitable for farming.

Where was rice grown?

• In dry, fertile soil.

• In the New England Colonies.

• In flat, wet land.

• In small areas called indigo gardens.

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What can you infer from this text?

• Colonists began to challenge traditional authority in both government and religion.

• New ideas from the Enlightenment and Great Awakening encouraged people to think independently and make personal choices.

• The Enlightenment and Great Awakening made colonists more obedient to traditional authority.

• Religious diversity increased in the colonies, which likely led to greater acceptance of different beliefs.

What in the main idea of this text?

• The Enlightenment and Great Awakening forced all colonists to follow the same religion and completely stop questioning any political ideas.

• Colonists ignored both the Enlightenment and Great Awakening, so their beliefs and traditions remained exactly the same without any change or influence.

• The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening encouraged independence, challenged traditional authority, and increased religious and intellectual freedom in the colonies.

• Both movements encouraged colonists to reject learning and education, teaching them that thinking for themselves was dangerous and unimportant in society.