The Southern Colonies

Compared to New England, the central colony is mainly a rural settlement in the south: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina, and Georgia.

By the late 17th century, the economic and social structure of the states of Virginia and Maryland was dependent on great producers and farmers. Flats producers supported by slave labor force have most political power and the best land. They built a wonderful house, adopted the noble lifestyle, and kept in touch with the overseas cultural world as much as possible.

At the same time, farmers working on smaller land gathered at the People's Party and entered the administration. Their frank independence constantly warns the producer's oligarchy regime not to excessively infringe the rights of free people.

South Carolina State Charleston became one of the leading ports and trade centers in the South. There, settlers soon learned to combine agriculture and commerce, and the market became a major source of prosperity. Lush forest also brings income: Trees from long leaves pine, tar and resin provide the best shipbuilding materials in the world. Unlike Virginia, which restricts single crops, North Carolina and South Carolina also produce and export rice and indigo, blue dyes obtained from conventional plants used to color fabrics There. By 1750, over 100,000 people lived in two colonies in North Carolina State and South Carolina State.

In the southernmost colonies, the backward population increase is particularly important, as in other areas. German immigrants and Scottish people - Ireland was reluctant to live in the influential first tidal residence of Britain, but it was driven to inland. People who can not protect the fertile land along the coast or the already depleted land find that the hilly land in the west is a rich shelter. Although their hardships were tremendous, the restless settlers continued and overflowed the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia in the 1730s. Immediately, the interior is dotted on the farm.

Families bordering on the edge of the province of India built a cottage, tidied up the wide areas of the wilderness, planted maize and wheat. Men are wearing leather made from deer or sheepskin. Their foods include deer, wild turkeys and fish. They have their own entertainment - great weddings, dancing, family gatherings, competition shooting, and making quilt blankets for newlyweds and couples. Quilt is still American tradition today.

The main economic and cultural differences between the Southern colony and the New England colony are not dependent on the New England religious centers but on the southern colonies plantations. Southern colonies such as Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, or "Plantation colonies". All of these colonies mainly exported agriculture of tobacco and rice. This brought the ultimate reliance on African slave labor. In most of these agriculture dependent colonies concern and confidence in the expansion of the plantation slowed the growth of the school and even the growth of the church. The main concern is the production of cash crops, and that is it it caused several overly interesting communities in some colonies. As a result, this has led to an economically centered society.

The southern colonial economy is based on plantation and slavery. Indigo, tobacco, tobacco and rice are the main crops, as irrigation of the nearby river is easy. The crops cultivated in the southern colonies are tobacco and rice, which is usually distributed in a wide range of plans. Cash crops are often traded with other colonies. Their slaves are the "backbone" of the southern colonies, otherwise the economy will be encouraged. The colony is a hierarchical society, the more richer you are, the better you are treated.