The Southern Colonies

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What was the government of the Southern colonies like?

Compare and contrast the colonies of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay.    

What was the religion in the Southern colonies?

What were cash crops in the Southern colonies?

What are five bad things about the Colony of Virginia?

Why were the southern colonies better than the other two regions of colonies (New England, Middle Colonies)?

Was the land in colonial Virginia good or bad, and why?

How did people make a living in colonial North Carolina?

Compare the religion, government, and landholding patterns of Virginia and Massachusetts. Why did New England settlers live longer?

Describe the climate of the Southern Colonies.

Why was South Carolina founded?

What was the geography of the Southern colonies?

Why were the Southern colonies founded?

What are the characteristics and lifestyle of the southern colonies?

How might the South's development have changed economically, socially, and politically without the cotton gin?

What features were common to all of England's southern colonies?

How, according to Woody Holton in Forced Founders, did non-elite groups influence the American Revolution in Virginia? Can Holton's argument be agreed with, or was the Revolution simply a revolt against British taxes and monarchy?

When and why were the Carolinas divided?

What were the effects of the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649?

How was education in the Southern colonies?

What society did Sir William Berkeley envision for Virginia?

What happened to the Roanoke colony?

What was cotton used for in the 1700s in the Southern Colonies?

What is Lord Baltimore known for?