Transcript Southern Colonies

Objectives
• Identify the society, culture, and economy of
the Southern Colonies
Thoughts
• What would life have been like in the
Southern Colonies
• How many Southern Colonies can I name
On the sheet of construction paper, draw the southern
colonies.
Questions
• What problems faced Maryland and Virginia?
• What economic activities are there in this
area? Why do you think these specific
economic activities developed there?
Virginia and Maryland
• Tobacco – major crop – take a myriad of labor
to plant, tend and harvest
• White landowners use enslaved Africans
• First slaves arrived in 1619 aboard a Dutch
ship
• England ships criminals and prisoners of war –
these people could work 7 years to earn
freedom
• A plethora of indentured servants arrive
Founding Maryland
• 1634 – Colony of Maryland is formed
• Land given to Sir George Calvert, Lord
Baltimore
• Wants to set up a safe place for Catholics
• Calvert’s son, Cecilius, gives estates to English
aristocrats, and land grants to other setters
• Need for workers grow immensely
Where do you think the colony found
workers?
Mason-Dixon Line
• Calvert and Penn families argue over border
between Maryland and Pennsylvania
• 1760 – 2 men hired – Charles Mason and
Jeremiah Dixon
• They determined the line
Religious Problems
• Calverts welcome Catholics and Protestants
• Protestants significantly outnumber Catholics
• 1649 - Acts of Toleration- ensures Catholics
and Protestants have equal rights
• 1692 – royal colony of Maryland – official
church is Protestant
• Catholics face same restrictions as they do in
You moved to America in search for
England
religious freedom…. Now your religion is
Why do you think the Crown of
England continues to take
colonies back?
being persecuted just like it was in
England. What do you do now? Do you
move or stay. What about the safety of
your family.
Bacon’s Rebellion
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• 1676 – Bacon leads
• 1640’s - Virginia governor,
William Berkley, treaty with
Native Americans – settlers
won’t move further west if
they trade some land to the
attacks on Native
colonists
Americans
• Bacon disagrees with eastern • His army burns down
dominated governments
Jamestown
restrictions on westerners
• Nathaniel Bacon falls ill
• Westerns settle in restricted
during raid and dies.
lands, blame government for • England sends troops in
not removing Native
to restore order
Americans
Carolinas
1663 – King Charles II
creates Carolina – Charles
land
North Carolina
South Carolina
Grow tobacco
Fertile land
Sold timber and
tar
Harbor at Charles
Town (Charleston)
Lack good harbor
Settlements
spread
Trade deerskin,
lumber and beef
Gives to 8 nobles
John Locke writes
constitution outlining jobs
and powers of colonial
government
Two different regions,
northern and southern
1729 - Splits into 2 – North
& South
Forced to use
Virginia’s ports
Compact
settlement
Grow rice and
indigo
Grow rice and
indigo
1719 take control
of charter and split
in 1729
Georgia
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Final colony in America – est. 1733
King George II gives James Oglethorpe the charter
Debtors settle colony, receive fresh start
Savannah is established as a fort to prevent attacks
from the south – Florida – Spanish colony
Many poor settle there, few debtors
People disagree with Oglethorpe’s rules on no slaves
and rum
1751 – Oglethorpe returns charter to the king
150 years of British settlers in America
Atlantic coast littered with British colonies.
Review Questions
• Why did Nathaniel Bacon oppose the colonial
government?
• What factors contributed to the growth of the
Carolinas?
• Why was Georgia founded?
• Why did Calvert establish the colony of
Maryland?
• Why did the demand of enslaved workers
increase in the Carolinas and other southern
colonies?