Life in the Southern Colonies
Step-by-step explanation:
- The Southern Colonies occupants settled there in search of economic prosperity. They were the land of opportunities for them because of its:
- Geographical conditions:
- Region: Coastal region with tidelands
- Climate: Warm and moist
- Soil: Highly fertile due to mineral-rich tideland, most suited for growing cash crops like tobacco, indigo, cotton, pine forests etc.
- Plantations: The plantation owners were wealthy and the workers were African slaves
- Navigation: Rivers
- Government: British Colonial Government
- Religion: Free to follow their religion like Catholics, Methodists, Baptists etc
- Housing: The rich plantation owners and others stayed in posh houses in Charles Town but the slaves had to settle in the plantations
- Food: They had a variety of food like fruits, vegetable, fishes, rice, bread, wild game, and other animals which they reared
- Children: Well mannered and cultured; well educated with reading, writing, and arithmetic and prayers; had tutors, schools, and colleges. The children of slaves were not sent to school.
- Entertainment: Shooting, stitching, quilting, kite flying etc