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What were the geographic advantages of various regions for Colonial industries? Surely there had to be some advantages to settling in the northern area compares to the south, or vice versa.
Good question, I'll have to think about that. I guess some of it would depend on what you did, education and personal taste. What might be an advantage for one could be a disadvantage for someone else.
Well I think that crops such as tobacco, cotton, and citrus were southern crops, whereas something like corn and wheat might be more northern. Aside from these I am not entirely certain what the advantages of each region would be.
There were no advantages over each region per se, but each region created advantages exploitable for the colonists. In Virginia it was tobacco, in South Carolina it was indigo and tar, in Massachusetts it was fishing and oysters. Yet, each region had its disadvantages including different antagonistic native groups, climatic patterns such as cold in the North and oppressive heat and humidity in the South. I don't think the desirability of either region was any more or less than the other. In fact, New England probably resembled England more than the South did, but those who settled in South Carolina were already used to Barbados and its warm climate. Georgia was established as a debtor colony so those escaping debts found that colony more attractive. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess so to say any region was blessed with more advantages over the other would be very hard to defend.
You say “those who settled in South Carolina were already used to Barbados and its warm climate”. Does this mean that settlers in the West Indies region immigrated to the Colonies during the early 1700s? Or when was this, and why did this migration occur from the Carribean?
You say "those who settled in South Carolina were already used to Barbados and its warm climate".? Does this mean that settlers in the West Indies region immigrated to the Colonies during the early 1700s?? Or when was this, and why did this migration occur from the Carribean?
The migration occurred in the middle and late 17th-century after Captain Hilton mapped out the Carolina coast. The slavers of Barbados heard the good reports of Hilton and decided to try their hand at sugar cane production in South Carolina. Sugar did not prove to be as profitable there as the slave trade itself and the discovery of tar and pitch made South Carolina a haven for ship building products. Then the dye industry took off as Indigo was discovered to be a great dye producing agent. Furthermore, England wanted a colony that would be suitable to an expanding noble class. Large land grants were given to nobleman in the Carolinas as rewards of loyalty and service to the king (King Charles II).
I think its a by product of several differnt things like burnt wood, coal, peat and oil.
That's about right. The tar comes from the trees and is used to seal ship decks to make them watertight.
