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Cash Crops- crops grown by farmers to be sold

Plains- an area of land that is flat

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Indigo- A blue dye made from plants

Rural- an area outside cities and towns more country side.

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The southern colonies main leaders of the farming industry. Tobacco, indigo, rice, farm products, and furs are some of the things that their industry produced.

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John Smith was the leader of Jamestown. He joined the Virginia colony when he became the leader. When the Native Americans attacked Jamestown, John Smith built  forts to protect the town. He was known as a hero. James Oglethorpe was also a famous person from that region. He discovered the Georgia colony in 1732. When the Florida region started to attack the Georgia, he used his military skills to defend the colonist.

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Some of the colonist that live in the Southern Colonies are overseers and indentured servants. An overseer in a person that is hired to watch over and control  large plantations. Indentured servants are hired to work in exchange for debt.

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A natural resource is a naturally occurring source of wealth, as land or water. Because the Southern Colonies had such fertile land, they were able to make money by exporting their crops to other colonies. Some of these crops included corn, cotton and tobacco. The colonies were also able to export livestock, which grew well in the fertile land. In addition to exporting for money, they would trade items for things that they were not able to find in the South, including shoes, lace, farm tools and dishes.

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The people that were wealthy and lived in the Southern colonies worked as plantation owners. Others worked as farmers. Some were slaves that just worked for others. In the southern American Colonies, the wealthy dined on roast beef and many other types of meat, while the poorer classes, servants and slaves ate more humble foods, such as corn bread, greens, pork, fried chicken and organ meats.

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The region consist of fertile soil, hilly coastal plains, forests, long rivers and swamp areas.

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Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia are in the Southern Region.