U.S. History – Unit 5
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(5) The Southern Colonies • (5a) Maryland — The Catholic Experiment • (5b) Indentured Servants • (5c) Creating the
Carolinas • (5d) Debtors in Georgia • (5e) Life in the Plantation South PLUS presentation: Catholic Education in the U.S.
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What was the most important crop in
Virginia and Maryland?
What does “buffer zone” mean as it’s used
in the text?
Explain Georgia’s role as a buffer zone.
Which five colonies make up the Southern
Colonies?
How was life expectancy different in the
Southern colonies contrasted with the
New England colonies?
How was the labor force different in the
Southern colonies contrasted with the
New England colonies?
What colony and modern state is located
on land between the Potomac River and
the Chesapeake Bay?
Provide an example of how Catholics were
persecuted in England, where the Anglican
Church was in the majority.
When was Maryland first settled?
What was the main reason that many
people became Maryland colonists? 
 Did many of the English citizens who
moved to Maryland travel with their
families or as individuals?
Regarding the first
residents of Maryland,
what does the black
section represent? What
does the grey section
represent?
Maryland was a good place to grow
tobacco. As a result, (1) what changed and
(2) what did not change?
What did the Maryland Act of Toleration
do?
The Act of Toleration likely led to what
part of the U.S. Constitution?
Provide examples of three cash crops in
the Southern Colonies.
What was needed to plant, grow, and
collect cash crops?
Many planters used which: indentured
servants or slaves?
Answers
U.S. History – Unit 5
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(5) The Southern Colonies • (5a) Maryland — The Catholic Experiment • (5b) Indentured Servants • (5c) Creating the
Carolinas • (5d) Debtors in Georgia • (5e) Life in the Plantation South PLUS presentation: Catholic Education in the U.S.
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Using the numbered list, identify which
items the planters received under the
Headright System.
1. 50 acres of land for every 1 worker
2. free fare to cross ocean
3. freedom dues
4. more land holdings
5. room & board
6. service of workers
7. written contract for usually 5 years
Using the numbered list, identify which
items the workers received under the
Headright System.
1. 50 acres of land for every 1 worker
2. free fare to cross ocean
3. freedom dues
4. more land holdings
5. room & board
6. service of workers
7. written contract for usually 5 years
What are “freedom dues”?
What might “freedom dues” include?
Name two problems that indentured
servants faced.
Note the text lists about five.
What happened as a result of Bacon’s
Rebellion?
Colonies created under the rule of
Charles II were known as what?
What cash crop quickly became rewarding
in southern Carolina?
The southern Carolina port of Charles
Town is known as what today?
Which group became a majority of the
southern Carolina population before
1750?
To make a living, most colonists in
northern Carolina started what?
Describe the slavery conditions in
northern Carolina.
What happened to the Carolinas in 1712?
When was Georgia created?
Explain Oglethorpe’s reasons for founding
Georgia.
Why did King George agree to Oglethorpe’s
plans? Give two reasons.
U.S. History – Unit 5
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(5) The Southern Colonies • (5a) Maryland — The Catholic Experiment • (5b) Indentured Servants • (5c) Creating the
Carolinas • (5d) Debtors in Georgia • (5e) Life in the Plantation South PLUS presentation: Catholic Education in the U.S.
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Did Georgia have an elected assembly, as
most of the other colonies did?
What categories did the three major laws
that governed the colony cover?
(a) distribution, possession, and
transportation
(b) industry, silkworms, and the
Enlightenment
(c) land, slavery, and alcohol
Explain why Georgia’s plan was a failure
by using these key words: (1) soil,
(2) buy/sell, (3) trees, (4) alcohol,
(5) slavery, (6) retention.
What happened to Georgia in 1752?
What are yeoman farmers?
In the U.S., yeoman farmers did not own
slaves, but did own their own small lots of
land (between 50 and 200 acres). These
were much smaller than planters’ land.
Most grew food just to feed themselves, but
some grew enough to sell.
Why was the contrast between rich and
poor much greater in the South than in
other English colonies?
How did the plantations’ distance from
each other and needed farm work affect
schooling?
Why was there few if any members of a
merchant middle class in the South?
What factor increased women’s power in
the South?
How did women develop managerial
skills?
Name two difficulties that women had to
face.
What problems resulted from the number
of remarriages?
Which came first: the United States, or
Catholic schools in North America?
For whom did St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
provide schools?
Name one of the “Heroes and Heroines of
Catholic Education in the U.S.”
Name one difference between Catholic
schools, past and present (mission, goals,
or purpose).
Answers
U.S. History – Unit 5
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(5) The Southern Colonies • (5a) Maryland — The Catholic Experiment • (5b) Indentured Servants • (5c) Creating the
Carolinas • (5d) Debtors in Georgia • (5e) Life in the Plantation South PLUS presentation: Catholic Education in the U.S.