Large percentages of the southern colonies consisted of African slaves.
The law was placed in the constitution to count slaves as 3/4 of a person when counting population for the House of Representatives. This was a compromise between the large southern states with large slaves populations and the northern colonies who were smaller in populations.
To large crops produced in the Southern Colonies were rice and tobacco. Other crops that were produced in the Southern Colonies were cotton, indigo, and sugar.
Southern Colonies
The Middle Colonies had farms but not plantations. Southern Colonies had plantations and farms. (The plantations were bigger than the farms.)
plantations
The soil and climate in the southern colonies were better for growing cash crops which required a large number of slave workers.
large plantations
The convention was made up of small colonies from the north and Middle and southern colonies that had large populations of slaves, so to prevent the slave populations from getting added into the census to determine the number of house members. They came to the decision that a slave wouldn't be counted as a full person but 3/5 of a person.
The economy of the southern states(not colonies) was dependent on large plantations due to the production of cotton, the souths cash crop during the 1800's.
The Southern Colonies The Southern Colonies
charles town was the63 only large town in the southern colonies in1620-1763 charles town was the63 only large town in the southern colonies in1620-1763
mabye maybe not...:p