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The Southern Colonies
Maryland, Georgia, Virginia North and South Carolina
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Mason-Dixon Line
• Two men started surveying 244 mile boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland– Charles Mason– Jeremiah Dixon
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Mason-Dixon line
• A line that divides the south and north
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Maryland
• Sir George Calvert persuaded King Charles I to give him land– Wasn’t well liked because he
converted from being a Protestant to a Catholic
– OMG!– Wanted a place where Catholics
could practice their religion
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Maryland• Maryland was
named in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria (the king’s wife)
• Calvert died before he got to his land– Son Lord
Baltimore Colony got the project on it’s way (Became Proprietor)
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Maryland
• Protestants and Catholics were both welcome
• Act of Toleration: religious freedom for all Christians
The Carolinas
• North Carolina: mostly poor tobacco farmers
• South Carolina English Nobles set up establishments
Carolinas
• Farming:– Indigo: plant a valuable blue dye – Start growing rice
• Need people to grow/harvest– African population will outnumber European settlers
Georgia
• James Oglethorpe
• Wanted a place for debtors: – people who own money
• English law imprisoned debtors
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Georgia
• Where do debtors go when they get out of jail?– To GEORGIA!
• At first . . .– Farmers could be no bigger than 500 acres
and slavery was outlawed
• Then . . .– Plantations grew and slavery were allowed
Turmoil
• Bacon Rebellion:– 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led an
uprising– Attacked Natives– Went to Jamestown and
burned it– Then Bacon died suddenly-
revote over• Followers hung
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Trade
•Mercantilism: Nation became strong by keeping strict control over its trade
•Exports: goods sent to markets outside a country
•Imports: goods brought into a country
Trade
• Navigation Acts: English Parliament passed laws to ensure that England benefits from colonial trade– English ships carry goods to and from the
colonies
Trade
• Need some government to control trade
• Legislature: people who have power to make laws– Christian men over 21 vote– Own property
Government• Magna Carta 1215
– King loses power
• John Locke 1682– Locke's ideas on
freedom of religion and the rights of citizens were considered a challenge to the King's authority by the English government and in 1682
– Exiled (told to get out) after he published his ideas
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Government
• Glorious Revolution: King James II removed and Mary & William of Netherlands– Bill of Rights: written list of freedoms the
government promises to protect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvkGFYlRSeg&feature=related
Who do you think was mad at this?Who gained the most?
Government
Why Lead to the Glorious Revolution?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9DJP1jWf-
o&p=6B0309E79C5FA1D6&playnext=1
Gunpowder plot:
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Government
• English Bill of Rights:– Rights of individuals – Right to trial by jury– Couldn’t raise taxes or an army without
approval of Parliament
NOT all English rights extended to colonist
Work Cited
• http://goodjesuitbadjesuit.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html
• http://reference.findtarget.com/search/Henrietta%20Maria%20of%20France/
• http://www.virginiaplaces.org/military/graphics/bacon.gif
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triangle_trade.png
• http://withintheempire.blogspot.com/2009/11/science-and-occult-weird-history-part-i.html