the southern colonies
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The Southern Colonies . What colonies Make Up the Southern Colonies? Why were they founded Who founded them . How did they divide the Colonies?. The Mason-Dixon Line . Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. It also divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Southern Colonies
What colonies Make Up the Southern
Colonies? Why were they founded Who founded them
How did they divide the Colonies?
The Mason-Dixon Line - Boundary between
Pennsylvania and Maryland. - It also divided the Middle
Colonies from the Southern Colonies .
- South of the Mason-Dixon Line, The Southern Colonies developed a way of life different in many ways from other English Colonies
1632- King Charles I grants Lord Baltimore
George Calvert colony of Maryland. First Governor of Maryland.
Calvert- Roman Catholic Plans to build a colony where Catholics could
practice their religion freely.
Maryland
George Calvert dies his son takes control of
the colony Lord Baltimore
Gave colonists a role in government by creating an elected assembly.
Gave generous land grants to anyone who brought over servants, women and children.
Growing Tobacco
Arrived in Maryland in 1638 with nine male
servants. Help set up two plantations of about 1,000
acres. First Woman to Own Property in 13 Colonies Help prevent a rebellion by selling off Lord
Calvert's estate: denied access to general assembly.
Margaret Brent
Lord Baltimore wanted Maryland to continue
to grow. We Know it was established as colony so
Catholics could practice religion freely. Man or Woman could acquire land estates as
long as they bring indentured servants, women or children.
Welcomed Protestants as well as Catholics to the Colony.
Religious Tolerance
Baltimore fears the Protestants might try to
deprive Catholics of their right to worship Freely.
Passes the Act of Toleration- law provided religious freedom for all Christians.
Tidewater Aristocrats:
Wealthy plantation owners, lived in the “Tidewater region of Chesapeake bay, costal Plaines”.
Control first elected assembly “House of Burgess” Representative government that made laws for
the colony.
Bacon’s Rebellion
Indentured Servants-
Worked for the Tidewater Aristocrats Signed contracts to work without wages for a
period of time/ Paid for their ocean passage to the new world.
Once freed: move inland on Native land. Disputes over land with natives.
Natives attack European villages and towns.
Nathaniel Bacon-
Wealthy plantation owner. Distraught over Native Attacks Seeks out Virginia’s Governor for help
Governor refuses because of trade ties with Natives over fur.
Hard to distinguish between Friendly and Unfriendly Natives.
Nathaniel Bacon and rebels burn down parts of Jamestown
Governor hangs 23 of Bacon’s Followers.
Leads to decline on reliance of Indentured
Servants. Fear that indentured servants will rebel. What will replace indentured servants in the
southern colonies? Incorporation of African Slave Labor.
Should Nathaniel Bacon be remembered as a hero?
1663 a group of eight English nobles received
a grant for King Charles II Northern part: mostly poor tobacco farmers
who had drifted south from Virginia. In 1712 became known as North Carolina.
The Carolinas
Eight English nobles set up a large colony
farther south. Colony became known as South Carolina is
1719. Both North and South Carolina became
profitable after the introduction of the Slave Trade Rice and Indigo.
South Carolina
James Oglethrope: founder of Georgia.(1732)
Wanted a colony where DEBTORS could make a fresh new start.
Debtors: people who owed money they could not pay back.
Under English Law: Government could jail someone until they paid back their debt.
Originally only allowed small farms and slavery was forbidden.
Georgia