Assignment.
Colonies Compared. Southern Colonies-Maryland, Virginia, North & South Carolina, Georgia.
The southern colonies began with the almost failed settlement of Jamestown in 1607. With the discovery of tobacco, the colonists were willing to forget the whole starvation and eating corpses business and get down to establishing plantations. The southern colonies had an ideal climate and soil for farming. History Globe. In 1606, some 105 adventurers set off from England to try and establish the first permanent English colony in the New World.
They settled in what is now the state of Virginia and called their colony first James Fort, and then James Towne, in honor of James I, the King of England. The early years of the colony were nearly a total disaster. Almost half of the settlers died due to poor choices in settlement location, management of resources, and quarrels with the indigenous Powhatan Indians. You are the Captain of the Jamestown Colony: Can you do any better than the real colonists? You will have a copy of the London Company's Instructions to help guide you. 13 Colonies.