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They worked for themselves for more money

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Q: What did the wealthy people work for in the southern colonies?
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Which colonies were mostly made up of plantations?

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What were slaves allowed to do in the southern colonies?

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What kind of work were in the southern colonies?

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What was the southern colonies economy?

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Why did the southern colonies depend more on slave labor compared to the northern colonies?

Because they were to lazy to work them selves and because the were to poor to pay other people.


What was the reasons why the Southern colonies were founded?

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Where did most African's work in the southern colonies?

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Did the New England and Middle Colonies and Southern Colonies all have slavery?

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Who did most of the farm work in the southern colonies?

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Why did the people in the southern colonies settle?

The southern colonies were populated, because people in England heard of the riches in America. They soon learned how well cash crops grew such as indigo, tobacco, and cotton. Men who were in debt had the option under James Oglethorpe to travel to Georgia to work as indentured servants.


The economy of the Southern Colonies was?

The Southern Colonies were of an agrarian economy, so they worked in agriculture, which called for plantations for the crops and the slaves to work on the crops. This became so deeply rooted that this is why the Southern Colonies that were soon to be the Southern States wished for slavery to be legal in the US.