they farmed crops such as rice,corn,and grow tobacco plants to trade and became wealthy.
The Middle Colonies had farms but not plantations. Southern Colonies had plantations and farms. (The plantations were bigger than the farms.)
Southern Colonies
Plantation
plantations
Backcountry
Tidewater
bad?
cash crops
The region of small farms in the southern colonies was called the "yeomanry." These small farms were typically owned and operated by families who were not large landowners, but rather worked their own land to produce goods for themselves and for sale. The yeomanry was an important part of the economic and social fabric of the southern colonies.
Southern plantations were large and needed many workers, but most southern colonists lived on small family farms. plantations, but small farms were much more common.
Southern colonies had rich soil and warm climate
Southern Colonies