Pilgrims wanted their own religion. They didn't like learning dutch as their main language, so they wanted to leave to go to America. Pilgrims didn't have enough money to successfully get to America, purchase the land, and have enough food for the when they travelled. Instead, they signed a contract to be indentured servants until they paid their way out of debt. The Pilgrims planted their own food, and made things for them and other people. The men went out to get the wood, and they went hunting to get the food. In contrast, the woman did the cooking, the cleaning, and making the clothing. Pilgrims didn’t strictly rely on slaves; However , the ability to make more money, to increase workers in harsh temperatures, and to be superior over slaves…show more content… As a result for having the warmest climates, summer months caused diseases. “Bugs had a really big effect in the Southern colonies,” said my teacher Mr. Reid. The bugs acted as if you had a younger sibling that bugs you all day and all night long. The bugs would bite you, get into your hair, and your food. Captain John Smith complained not only of "Musketas and Flies" but of a new annoyance, "a certaine India Bug, called by the Spaniards a Cacarootch, the which creeping into Chests they eat and defile with their ill-scented dung." Also, A guy by the name of Thomas Mouffet around 1658 called bugs, "nasty, cruel, rough, thieving, living of nocturnal depredations after an infamous manner." For one thing, the Southern colonies also had fertile soil where you can plant different types of goods, and rivers near so you can go fishing. The Southern colony used their land mostly for growing crops, though. The natural resources included tobacco, rice, pitch and indigo. The most requested natural resource was tobacco because people liked to smoke. Eating rice was also common because you can add rice to make you full. Pitch was used to help patch up boats from leaks, which help with travels overseas. Indigo was a very rare plant, but spread to the Southern
