Southern Colonies: Achievement Of Wealth

Southern colonies were concentrated in the achievement of wealth. As a result they based their economy in agriculture gaining more terrain. The South had enormous cash crops of mostly tobacco and rice and not enough employees to work in it. Considering that slavery was cheap it was the answer for success for this southern businessmen. Northern colonies were less interested in gaining wealth than they were more concerned with creating a heaven for the practice of their religion. For this reason, exploiting agriculture was not a priority. In fact, salves work doing “soft duties” even as servants or housekeepers in family