The environment in the Southern Colonies led to an economy centered on which of the following?

Small family businesses and artisan crafts

Shipbuilding and fishing industries

Large farms growing cash crops for profit

Fur trading with Native American groups

What common feature of the Southern Colonies was most important in the development of their shared agricultural economy?

They were all founded by the same group of proprietors.

Their warm climate and fertile soil were ideal for farming.

They all established the same official religion.

All colonies were designed to be military buffer zones.