The Southern Colonies

Ch3 Sec1

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Jamestown English Merchants asked King

James for a charter for the area of Virginia.

Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America.

Not prepared for colonial life 2/3 of the original colonists

were dead.

Video Jamestown

John Smith Took over the colony in 1608 Made the settlers work

harder and build a fort. Rewarded harder workers

with food. Made friends with the

Powhatan tribe Tribe brought colonists food

and showed them how to plant corn.

Sickness in Jamestown In 1609, the colony

received 400 colonist A year later there were

only 60 left! Disease and famine

struck the colony Winter was called “The

starving time”

John Rolfe Introduced a tobacco that Jamestown

farmers could sell in England Married Pocahontas Took her back to England where she

died three years later. Video

America: the Story of US Part 1

War in Virginia In 1622, Colonist killed a Powhatan

leader

Indentured ServantsOften swapped 50

acres (headright system) for passage to colonies

Gentry paid their wayGot land back when

debt paid, usually 7 years

Often died & didn’t claim land

Lowest social class

Bacon’s RebellionCrisis Over Land

Tenant farmers & indentured servants want to own land (couldn’t vote)

1670s- available land in Piedmont (foothills)

Gentry didn’t want people in Piedmont, would make Native Americans mad

Crisis Over Land1675, war between N. Ams. and settler in Piedmont

Governor stopped the fighting

Nathaniel BaconGentry with land near the piedmont

Attacked by N. Am.Organized militia and attacked N. Am.

Nathaniel Bacon

Seized JamestownCharged governor with corruption

Nathaniel BaconGovernor raised army

Bacon got sick and died

Rebellion ended

Slavery Increases in VA

After rebellion, VA expanded to get land for small farmers (scared of rebellion)

Plantation owners switch from indentured servants to slaves

Slavery Increases in VA

Why the switch?-don’t have to free slaves-cheap land in PA means fewer Indentured servants

-Royal African Company makes slaves plentiful

Slavery in the Colonies

Olaudah Equiano- wrote an account of the Middle passage

Middle Passage- transport of enslaved Africans to Americas

Originally, slaves were treated like indentured servants

Slavery in the Colonies

1683- Maryland says slaves don’t have the same rights as whites

1705- Virginia slave codes- regulated and defined slavery