Answer:
1. It was warm and sunny for much of the year and the land was flat with rich soil.
2. Missouri compromise 1820
Explanation:
1.The Southern colonies include the Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia.
Virginia was the first established colony of the South and later the English businessman owned the land of different areas for plantation. The economy of the South depended on agriculture.
The climate and geology of the South are suitable for the cash crops plantations like tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton etc. The climate of the south is warm with mild winters and the soil is fertile in these plain areas.
2. Missouri compromise was passed in 1820 between North and South as an effort to maintain the balance between the senators of the North and South.
Maine was declared as a free state and admitted as 23rd state of the Union in exchange for Missouri as a slave state.
