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Rural- means an area outside cities and towns. Your most likely to be in there when you are in the countryside.
Another vocabulary word is... Subsistence farming- which means your in a farming area but the farmers only grow enough food for there family's.  Two more vocabulary words to go. The next vocab word is indentured servants - this word means that the workers hired to do in exchange for a dept. One more word to go. The word that I picked is indigo- the word indigo means a blue dye made from plants. The picture below is an example of rural.
This padlet was  made by Gianna Di Tizio

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The farmers in the southern colonies grew more than needed so they were able to trade and get cash for of what they sold these are some of the things that they owned and sold indigo, tobacco, rice, sugar cane, and cotton. Charleston, South Carolina was a very popular port and trading center in the south.

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John Smith is one of the many famous people in the southern colonies. John Smith settled in the Virginia colony and became the leader in Jamestown, which was the first permanent settlement in North America he also became famous for protecting Jamestown with big forts to surround the town.

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There are some farmers that were not as wealthy as others so they owned small amount of land. However, if you were rich or had a lot of money you would have more ground and acres.They commonly hired people from overseas to help with the plantations. The overseers hired slaves and servants to on the land and the crops.

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The natural resources found in the southern colonies were plentiful. It is one of the resources that has rich soil and fertilizer. Witch they  grow in many different kinds of crops and plants. The land not located by the coastline was sometimes cleared to grow other kinds of crops like corn, wheat and other crops.

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The southern colonies were filled with plantation and a lot of farmlands. If you don't know what a plantation is it is basically a very large piece of land that grows a lot of crops, trees, and plants. A plantation was typically owned by wealthy family's.

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The soil in the southern colonies was very rich and fertilized. The growing season in this region was much longer than the one in the northern colonies.

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The states in the southern colonies are Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. They became known as the farming states due to their success in planting, growing, and selling crops.