Southern Colonies - Chiles Social Studies
Warm-Up (9/24)
1) Please get out your “Middle Colonies”
Summary sheet and complete any questions you did not during yesterday’s class
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2) Please pick up a 13 Colonies Map from the side table
Southern Colonies
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Virginia
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Maryland
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North Carolina
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South Carolina
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Georgia
The Southern Colonies
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ENVIROMENT : Appalachian Mountains bordered parts of these colonies in the west. Atlantic Ocean bordered the colonies to the east. Warm weather, good soil, many rivers, very humid
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ECONOMY : tobacco, rice, cotton and indigo. Good harbors. Cash Crops.
• GOVERNMENT : Virginia House of Burgesses
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RELIGION/SOCIAL : One church, rural towns, PLANTATIONS
Life in the Southern Colonies
SOCIAL
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Life centered around farming, not much education, if the family was wealthy enough their children could get educated
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Colonies were very rural. Not many towns or cities
Need for Workers
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As tobacco prices fell, plantations continued to be successful because they were better able to maintain high profits
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Leads to a demand in labor
II. Plantation Workers
1) Prisoners and criminals
– Scotch/Irish POWs,
English criminals
2) Africans
– enslaved by African rulers and sold to European slave traders
3) Indentured servants
– In order to pay for their passage over, agreed to work for a certain period of time w/o pay
Maryland
Maryland
A) Founded by George Calvert in 1634 as a refuge for persecuted
Catholics
B)Agriculture
1) Tobacco becomes 1 st cash crop
2) Maryland law dictated that every person who planted tobacco must also plant 2 acres of corn
3) Many families also produced crops like wheat, fruit, vegetables, and livestock
C) Laborers
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As number of plantations increase so too do the need for slaves and indentured servants
The Carolinas
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1663 Carolina was founded
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English settled Charles Town (Charleston) and became refuge for French Hugenots
• cut timber, raised cattle, traded with Indians
• used African slaves
• taking of tribal land and Indians as slaves fueled war
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Carolina became a royal colony in 1729 and divided into North Carolina and South Carolina
Georgia
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1732 James Oglethorpe founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors
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English, German, Swiss and Scottish settlers came
• all religions were welcomed
• became a royal colony in 1752
