The Southern Colonies

Plantations and small farms, cash crops, the Church of England, and tutors.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 49

Last stop, the Southern colonies: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, our state!
Economy: the long, warm growing season was perfect for cash crops: tobacco in Virginia and Maryland, and rice and indigo in South Carolina and Georgia.
Some planters owned huge plantations, worked by enslaved people who were forced to work without pay. But most families lived on small farms and did their own work.
Religion: the Church of England was the official church in many Southern colonies.
Education: people lived far apart, so there were few schools. Rich children learned from tutors at home, and some went to school in England. Many poor children never went to school.
Georgia was started in 1733. James Oglethorpe planned Savannah with many squares. Georgia banned slavery at first, then allowed it in 1751.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

SS3H3.b — Compare and contrast colonial life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies (education, economy, and religion).
SS3G3.c — Explain how the physical geography of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies helped determine economic activities.