Southern Colonies
By: Bryson, Erin, Ihylyah, Denis
When and what colonies were established?
Virginia - 1607
Georgia- 1732
Carolinas- 1653
Maryland- 1634
The Climate And Reasons For Settlement
Climate
-warm and damp
-hot summers
Reasons of Settlement
-wanted religious
-freedom to create own rules and constitution
Geographic Features
Geographic features
-located on the coast
- good fertile land
- flat coastal plains
- swamps, creeks and rivers
- NC has both Blue Ridge and Smoky Mtns.
Religious Influences
-anglicans
-catholics
-baptist
-lutherans
-presbyterians
Major Cash Crops
Major Cash Crops
-tobacco
-rice
-pine forest
-cotton
-indigo
Government And Important Groups/People
Government
-representative government
Important Groups/People
-Sir George Calvert
-Virginia Company
-Cecilius Calvert
-Nathaniel Bacon
-John Locke
-James
John Locke
defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that god had made all people naturally subject to a monarch.
A reason for settlement
One of the main reasons that they left and settled in the southern colonies was that they could have freedom of religion.
Blue ridge Mtns.
are located in North Carolina and it is one of the biggest geographic features of the southern colonies.