Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Southern Carolina,












My topic is Rice Cultivation, the book I got for my topic is South Carolina. Some information i found was that the English used Africans to grow rice for them because the had many knowledge to make rice a profitable crop. Wealthy colonist set up large farms called plantations.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Cairo, Illinois.


A place I did research on was Cairo, Illinois. Cairo has a population of about 3,632 people. The town is thought of the strangest city on the river. Cairo has been known as a sad place, abandoned. The city was built to have a population 5 times of what it is now.