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The Southern Colonies were the Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, and Province of Georgia, Province of Maryland, and Province of Virginia.

Some reasons for colonists to move to the Southern Colonies were gold, resources, and land. But most of all, colonists who wanted to reap huge profits started plantations. Their economy was supported by plantations, mostly run by Slavery in the United States, except for Georgia, where most plantations were run by debtors. Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, also traded with Great Britain, slave ships from Africa, and the Caribbean. Their cash crops were tobacco, cotton, indigo, rice, and sugar cane. Colony and Dominion of Virginia and Province of Maryland are sometimes considered part of the Southern Colonies. The government was dominated mainly by planters and farmers.

There was warm weather, many good waterways, and soil suited for warm weather crops.

Most whites were plantation owners and cavaliers and blacks were slaves.

[edit] See also

• Thirteen Colonies
• Cheasapeake Colonies

The Thirteen Colonies of Colonial America
Connecticut Colony • Delaware Colony • Province of Georgia • Province of Maryland • Province of Massachusetts Bay • Province of New Hampshire • Province of New York • Province of New Jersey • Province of North Carolina • Province of Pennsylvania • Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations • Province of South Carolina • Colony and Dominion of Virginia

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