The Southern Colonies is located the farthest south along the Atlantic Coast. The Southern Colonies consisted of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. In some colonies, tobacco became the main cash crop, in other colonies it was rice. Both rice and tobacco grew great on the low and flat coastal plains of the southern region. Other cash crops were cotton, indigo, and corn. On the coastal plains, large farms, plantations, spread providing many workers to plant, tend, and harvest plenty of crops. Here, farmers mainly grew what they needed to supply their families, they depended less on enslaved labor. As you leave away from the coast, you would find that the soil was lacking and that the plantations are smaller. The Southern Colonies also consisted of many rivers, bays, wetlands, as well as abundant areas of agriculture/farming land. People worked and lived on plantations, they entertained themselves. In the Southern Colonies, there were no large cities, only large farms and small