Unlike the New England and the middle colonies, the main reason people settled the southern colonies was to make money.
Explanation:
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina sought to ensure the colony's stability by allotting political status by a settler's wealth upon arrival - making a semi-manorial system with a Council of Nobles and a plan to have small landholders defer to these nobles.
East Florida became a prime object of territorial ambition for President James Monroe and his Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. His secretary Adams was viewing opportunities to confront Spain for control of the region.
