Why Were There Natural Resources In Colonial Carolina

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One would like to settled in colonial Carolina because of three reasons: There was an abundance of resources, People could get lots of land for cheap, And there was no religious persecution. There was an abundance of resources in colonial Carolina including fish, deer, turkeys, and timber for houses or ships. Also people could get lots of land for cheap depending on how many people they had brought with them. Finally there was no religious persecution unlike the other colonies. First of all there was an abundance of natural resources in the new colonies including rivers/streams, trees, deer, turkeys, wolfs, and chickens. All of these items were used for survival. When there was this many resources it was appealing to the farming colonist who knew how to grow and cook things. With all the resource it made life in the new colonies easier to make a profit on anything including: deer skins, corn, tobacco, indigo, lumber, and any sort of meat. For example Robert Horn said …show more content…
You could get all this land because of the head right system which allowed a person to get land depending on how many people he or she had brought from overseas. When you had lots of land that also determined your social class at first the Carolina elite had lots of land and a large plantation. Having large amounts of land either meant you could have a plantation or sell your land to the government to grow certain crops on it which was called a subsidy. For example when Robert Horn said “ Every Free-man and Free-woman that that transport themselves and Servants by the 25 of March next, being 1667, shall have for Himself, Wife, Children, and Men-servants, for each 100 acres of Land for him and his Heirs forever, and for every Woman-servant and Slave 50 acres paying at most 1/2 d. per acre, per annum, in lieu of all demands, to the Lords