The Southern Colonies

29 September 2009Miss BailsThe Southern ColoniesI. Geography of the Southern ColoniesMason-Dixon Line line btwn. Maryland/Pennsylvania; later line btwn. N & SMaryland, Virg, NC, SC, GeorgiaWarm/humid, long growing season (tobacco/rice) spurs slavery

II. Virginia Grows1650: death rate fell, population increasedA. Conflicts with Native Americans1. Disease/violence shrank NA population2. 1622/1644: violence; hundreds of colonists killed3. 1644: NAs had to accept English ruleII. Virginia GrowsB. Bacons Rebellion1. 1660s: poor colonists no farmland (tobacco); forced to work for wealthy2. Farmers move inland, fight NAs, governor avoids war b/c of fur trade3. 1675: Nathaniel Bacon attacked NAs; governor declares them as rebels, Bacon burns down Jamestown4. Could not stop settling of NA land

III. Religious Toleration in Maryland1632: Maryland new colony Catholics/Protestants both settled; leads to tensionLord Baltimore, 1649: Act of Toleration (Religious toleration only for Christians)

IV. Colonies in the Carolinas and Georgia1663: new charter for CarolinaN grew slowly, small farms for tobaccoS grew fast, sugar, rice slavery

IV. Colonies in the Carolinas and GeorgiaA. Georgia1. Created to keep Spain out2. Created for debtors

V. Change in the Southern ColoniesTwo distinct ways of lifeA. The Tidewater Region1. Plantations: crops exported profitably to Europe 2. Divided white/slaves; divided rich/poor

V. Change in the Southern ColoniesB. The Backcountry1. Cut off from society, isolated farms2. Backcountry believed govts did not care about them