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