Carolina split into North and South.
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South Carolina was an English colony is the American south. It saw the scene of the southern campaign during the American Revolutionary War and was later the first state to secede from the union prior to the American Civil War.
The 13 original American colonies were:- Connecticut- Massachusetts- Delaware- Georgia- Maryland- New York- New Jersey- New Hampshire- North Carolina- Pennsylvania- Rhode Island- South Carolina- Virginia
Waterways in southern colonies were especially important because they allowed an economic means of transporting major crops like tobacco and cotton to sea ports for sale in Europe and later to Northern Industrialized states.
Georgia. The original charter set the boundaries of the colony between the Altamaha and Savannah Rivers and then extended westward all the way to the Mississippi River. The charter was granted in 1732.
Southern Colonies in North America were established by Great Britain during the 16th and 17th centuries and consisted of South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland (This is in fact in the Southern Colonies and not in the Middle Colonies as some sources say) [citation needed], Virginia, and Georgia.
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Virginia colony split into West Virginia and Virginia.
Virginia colony split into West Virginia and Virginia.
Slavery expanded most rapidly in the Southern colonies during the 1700s, due to the labor-intensive nature of agriculture, particularly cash crops like tobacco, rice, and later cotton. The Southern colonies had a larger demand for enslaved labor compared to the Northern colonies.
The Province of Georgia (later known as Georgia) was the southernmost settlement in the 13 original colonies.
Georgia Colony was one of the Southern colonies in British America. It was the last of the thirteen original colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States. In the original grant, a narrow strip of the province extended to the Mississippi River.
Georgia is the southern most of the 13 colonies.
* New England * Province of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire * Province of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts and Maine * Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island * Connecticut Colony, later Connecticut. * Middle Colonies * Province of New York, later named to New York and Vermont[1] * Province of New Jersey, later New Jersey * Province of Pennsylvania, later Pennsylvania * Delaware Colony (before 1776, the Lower Counties on Delaware), later Delaware * Southern Colonies (depending on the subject under discussion, Virginia and Maryland may be separated as the Chesapeake Colonies) * Province of Maryland, later Maryland * Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia * Province of North Carolina, later North Carolina and Tennessee * Province of South Carolina, later South Carolina * Province of Georgia, later Georgia Source: Wikipedia
Delaware was originally a proprietary colony, but later on, in the early 1700s, it became a Royal Colony. (just a comment, corporate colonies are called charter colonies)
Before the 1770s, all of the 13 American colonies were ruled by the King of England. Colonial Georgia was one of these 13 colonies. It was at approximately the same land that Georgia occupies now.
The British controlled the colonies on the Eastern Coast. The Spanish had colonies in Florida and later in the Southwest, while the Dutch had colonies in the far northeast.
The founder of the New England colonies were the English Pilgrims who moved to the New World from England. The first English settlement later became the colony known as Jamestown.