Southern Colonies
Across
- 3. North Carolina was the first English _____ in the New World.
- 5. South Carolina was originally a part of the Carolina _____.
- 6. Plantations were so large and required a lot of workers, they were like _____ of their own.
- 7. _____ made it easy to grow crops in the Southern Colonies.
- 13. Plantations were usually around the _____.
- 15. All of the colonist on Roanoke Island had _____, so they named the island “The Lost Colony”
- 16. Maryland was founded in 1633 for a safe haven for _____.
- 18. The cash crops of the Southern Colonies consisted of tobacco, indigo, and _____.
- 19. The colonists had a lot of plantations and slaves because of the _____.
- 20. The main reason James Oglethrope founded Georgia is so _____ could live there.
Down
- 1. The main resources in the Southern Colonies were fish, good farming land, and _____.
- 2. Many _____ worked at the plantations because they required a lot of work.
- 4. Many of the colonists who came to the southern colonies were _____ from England and they wanted to become even more from owning lands.
- 8. Carolina Most of the population in _____ was made up of slaves.
- 9. _____ was the cultural center of the Southern Colonies.
- 10. Georgia’s agriculture was mainly indigo, sugar, and _____.
- 11. _____ spread quickly due to the mild climate.
- 12. The flat land was good for farming so the landowners built large farms that were called _____.
- 14. Plantation owners were the _____ families in the Southern Colonies.
- 17. A lot of _____ were grown for the specific reason of selling to others.