The Southern
Colonies
Ch3 Sec1
Entry Task- You are the
Teacher!
 Take
out your vocab homework.
 Using the other students trifold, complete
the worksheet for every vocab word.
 Present your vocab sheet, show your
artwork and make sure your fellow
students understand your word in your
own words.
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 Servants
 Often
swapped 50
acres (headright
system) for passage to
colonies
 Gentry paid their way
 Got land back when
debt paid, usually 7
years
 Often
died & didn’t
claim land
 Lowest
social class
Bacon’s Rebellion
Crisis 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 Land
1675,
war between N. Ams.
and settler in Piedmont
 Governor stopped the
fighting
Nathaniel Bacon
Gentry
with land near the
piedmont
Attacked by N. Am.
Organized militia and
attacked N. Am.
Nathaniel Bacon
Seized Jamestown
Charged governor
with corruption
Nathaniel Bacon
Governor
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
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
Slavery in the Colonies
1683-
Maryland says
slaves don’t have the
same rights as whites
1705- Virginia slave
codes- regulated and
defined slavery