Southern Colonies

Question 1

Name the Southern Colonies

Answer 1

Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

Question 2

Who founded the colony Maryland?

Answer 2

Cecilous

Question 3

Who was allowed to liver there?

Answer 3

Catholics and Protestants

Question 4

Who was the govenor?

Answer 4

Leonard Caverlt (Cecilous’ brother)

Question 5

Did he run Maryland like a business?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

How did the colony become wealthy?

Answer 6

Tobacco farms

Question 7

In 1649 what act was passed and what did it do?

Answer 7

Toleration Act

It allowed all christians to practice in the colony.

Question 8

What are plantations?

Answer 8

Large farm that grows crop as cash crop

Question 9

What is indigo?

Answer 9

A plant used to make blue dye

Question 10

What did they grow in Carolinas

Answer 10

Tobacco rice, indigo

Question 11

Was Carolina one colony and then separated?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

What became the leading cash crop?

Answer 12

Rice

Question 13

In what year did Carolina split into North and South?

Answer 13

1729

Question 14

What is a debtor?

Answer 14

A person who owes money but cannot repay it.

Question 15

Where did you go if you were a debtor?

Answer 15

Jail

Question 16

Where did they want to send people instead of jail?

Answer 16

Georgia to work in fields and pay off debt.

Question 17

Who is James Ogelthorpe?

Answer 17

He wantd to grow silk in Georgia for high demand in England

Question 18

What did Mary Musgrave do?

Answer 18

Helped Creek Indian and colonist be friends.

Question 19

What colony had the highest number of people not from Great Britain livin ther?

Answer 19

Georgia

Question 20

What did Georogia make?

Answer 20

First tobacco and then rice.

Question 21

Did Georgia allow slavery at first?

Answer 21

No

Question 22

In what year did slavery become legal in Georgia?

Answer 22

1750