The Southern Colonies Questions and Answers
What were cash crops in the Southern colonies?
Compare and contrast the colonies of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay.
How did people make a living in colonial North Carolina?
What was the government of the Southern colonies like?
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?
Why were the Southern colonies founded?
Why was South Carolina founded?
Describe the southern colonies' characteristics and ways of life.
Describe education in the Southern colonies.
What was the religion in the Southern colonies?
In his book Forced Founders, author Woody Holton argues that the American Revolution in Virginia, commonly believed to be the struggle by Virginian “gentlemen” to protect and expand their freedom, was the result of the powerful influence of non-elites: Indians, debtors, merchants, slaves, and smallholders (yeomen). How, according to Holton, did each of the non-elite groups push Virginia’s gentlemen into revolution? Can one agree with Holton’s argument for the causes of the revolution, or was the revolution simply a revolt against British taxes and monarchy?
Compare the settlements of Virginia and Massachusetts in regard to their founding religion, form of government, and landholding patterns. It is noted that settlers to New England had a greater life expectancy than those to colonies south of the Chesapeake Bay. Why?
Describe the climate of the Southern Colonies.
What was the geography of the Southern colonies?
What was cotton used for in the 1700s?
Who settled in the Southern colonies?
If the cotton gin had not been invented by Eli Whitney. How might that have changed the development of the South economically, socially,and politically?
What were the literacy rates in the Southern Colonies?
What are some facts about the Southern colonies?
Describe the economy of the Southern colonies.
Why was the North Carolina colony started?
Explain the economic, social and psychological factors that caused Europeans and Americans to enslave Africans. Why was there a shift from indentured servants to African slaves? Describe how slavery differed in the different regions of British America. What liberties, if any, were extended to slaves from one region to another? What was the impact of the Stono Rebellion?
What major event happened in North Carolina in 1653?
What was the purpose of the Province of Georgia?
How were the Chesapeake colonies created?
When and why were the Carolinas divided?
How could I compare and contrast the Southern and Middle Colonies?
What is Raleigh, NC known for?
Who began the first English colony on Roanoke Island?
What is Lord Baltimore known for?
What features were common to all of England's southern colonies?
Will the mystery of the Roanoke Colony ever be solved?
What were the effects of the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649?
How were the Carolina Colonies named?
What was everyday life like in the Southern Colonies?
When was North Carolina officially established? Why?
What was Virginia named for?
What are some important facts about the colony of Georgia?
How was Maryland founded?
What happened to the Roanoke colony?
Who was Lord Baltimore?
Who was Maryland settled by?
Why did George Calvert establish Maryland?
What were the most important landforms in the Southern Colonies?
Why is James Oglethorpe considered to be important?
What kind of society did Sir William Berkeley envision for Virginia?
How was the colony of Virginia founded?
What happened to the Lost colony of Roanoke?
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