Southern

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Southern
Economy

• Chapter 7 Lesson 3

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Cash Crops

• Plantations shipped thousands of tons of crops
  each year
• Those crops needed to be shipped to England and
  the West Indies
• Port cities were therefore very important to the
  southern colonies
• Charles Town in South Carolina was one of the
  most important port cities in the south

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Cash Crops

• In Maryland, Virginia, and northern North
  Carolina, the main cash crop was ?
• In southern North Carolina, South Carolina, and
  Georgia, the main cash crop was ?
• This cash crop was so important, it was often
  called Carolina gold.
• In South Carolina, another cash crop was indigo
  plants, a plant from which blue dye could be
  made.

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Eliza Lucas Pinckney

• Eliza Lucas Pinckney was a 16 year old girl whose
  father sent her some indigo plant seeds from the
  West Indies.
• For 3 years, Eliza worked hard to be able to
  successfully grow an indigo plant that produced
  an excellent dye.
• She gave some seeds from her successful plants to
  her friends and neighbors.
• Within a few years, South Carolina planters were
  selling 1 million pounds of indigo a year to
  clothmakers in Europe.
• Indigo became the 2nd most important cash crop in
  South Carolina.

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Cash Crops

• Another cash crop in the Carolinas was silk.
• Silk is made by ?
• Silkworms undergo the same metamorphosis as
  caterpillars/butterflies.
• They start as worms.
• They spin a cocoon.
• They come out of the cocoon as a big
  mothy-looking bug.
• Later, theyll lay eggs that will become worms.
• The cycle then starts over again.

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Cash Crops

• To make silk, you have to interrupt this process.
• They start as worms.
• They spin a cocoon.
• While the worm is still inside maturing into a
  moth, the cocoon is taken and put into boiling
  water and cooked.
• This kinda kills the worm.
• The cocoon is then spun into thread.
• So they dont kill off all of their stock of
  silkworms, silk farmers allow some worms to
  mature into moths so that they can lay more eggs.

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Port Cities

• Port cities along the Atlantic coast were the
  major trading centers in all the colonies,
  including the south
• The cities of Charles Town, South Carolina,
  Norfolk, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland were
  busy towns that quickly grew into large cities
  because of the growing trade between the colonies
  and England

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Main Ideas

• Port cities were very important to the economy of
  the southern colonies
• The main cash crops in the south?
• Eliza Lucas Pinckney helped establish indigo as a
  main cash crop in the southern colonies.