The reason for the southern economic worth
being so much higher was that <span>they developed a plantation system. And the plantation system succeeded
due to headright.
Headright means the land given to the settlers to grow crops and this became
famous in colonial era where people were given from one acre to one thousand
acres for plantation. This resulted in a booming system of plantation.</span>
The name of the settlement the Salzburgers built that was 25 miles northwest of Savannah was called "New Ebenezer." They opened many silk mills, and was considered a "religious utopia on the Georgia frontier."
